In Episode 373 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, for years, Jerome Moore believed that people who thought differently than him politically held fundamentally different values. Then he spent years sitting across from hundreds of people, one slice of deep dish pizza at a time, and found out that wasn't true.
Jerome Moore is an Emmy-nominated TV producer and host, born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. He hosts A Slice of Community on Nashville PBS, created the award-winning Deep Dish Conversations podcast, and recently premiered his first independent documentary about the first Iranian-American in space. He is a former Peace Corps volunteer, TEDx speaker, author, and one of the most thoughtful voices on community and social change in Nashville. Tonight, he joins Jason live in front of a studio audience at the Standard Club in Nashville for a conversation most people aren't willing to have.
The lie Jerome believed, and that most of us believe, is that people on the other side of the political aisle hold fundamentally different values. It's a belief quietly installed by social conditioning, algorithms, and the bubble most of us never think to question. And it's costing us something far more expensive than an election.
In this episode, Jason and Jerome cover:
Why going into a conversation already knowing what the other side believes makes a real conversation impossible
How growing up in a diversely segregated city like Nashville installs beliefs you never consciously chose
The college professor who tried to teach Jerome to assimilate — and why he pushed back at 18 years old
What Jerome discovered talking to white Americans in China about racism — and why it completely blindsided him
Why both liberals and conservatives are wrong about each other in the exact same way
The difference between racism, bigotry, prejudice, and implicit bias — and why they're not the same thing
Why Jerome calls Nashville a blue dot full of red dots — and what that actually means for how people think
What social media is really costing the country — and who's actually profiting from the division
Why Jerome doesn't identify as Democrat or Republican — and how breaking issues down one by one changes everything
What tangible community change looks like when you stop waiting for policy and start showing up
Why finding five minutes of community joy every day might be the most countercultural thing you can do right now
What Jerome now knows that he wishes the world knewWe're much more alike than we are different. This episode is proof.
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Jerome Moore is an Emmy-nominated TV producer, host, and community builder based in Nashville, Tennessee. He hosts A Slice of Community on Nashville PBS, created the award-winning Deep Dish Conversations podcast, and recently premiered his first independent documentary. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, TEDx speaker, and author, Jerome has spent years sitting across from people in divided communities — one slice of pizza at a time — helping them find what they have in common. His Deep Dish Conversations community project brings pizza parties and meaningful conversation into youth groups, organizations, and schools across Nashville.
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