intro
Theme includes sample of Run for You by Buke & Gass. Check them out! Intro background music is a song by Múm. Clips from Taxi, “Guess Who’s Coming for Brefnish” written by Barry Kemp and performed by Andy Kaufman and Carol Kane.
9/11 and rodney king
What has changed?
politics
Comedian and Lefty firebrand Jimmy Dore talks about the political divide. Then Dan asks Right-winger David Allswang why they’re friends.
partisans, fanatics, and doubt
Oh my! Dan is for doubt. He thinks.
greeks vs. turks
Celebrity Chef Christo Peskias talks about hating Turks and getting over it.
neighbors
An excerpt from Spalding Gray’s Swimming to Cambodia. Then Dan talks about sharing a tiny room with a guy he hated.
sports
How Rugby saved South Africa. Then a talk with comedian, poet, and Oakland Raiders superfan, Brian Potrafka.
plane crash follies!
2 guys. 1 phone. Performed by Demorge Brown and Bennie Arthur.
bridge people / boat people
Comedian Isaac Witty’s peace plan.
israel (oy!)
As a kid in Israel, Arye Braun was a right-wing, racist fanatic. He served in the Israeli Army. Then he turned into a liberal. What happened?
near / far
Does getting distance from your enemies help or hurt?
naive realism and the fundamental attribution error
Pioneering social psychologist Lee Ross has spent much of his life studying people in conflict, the mistakes they make, and ways to help bring opposing sides together. (I cut it for pacing, but Ross credited Dick Nisbett and Ned Jones for their work on how actors and observers perceive things differently.)
god is great
If you have to go with God, find one better than you.
the veil of ignorance
Rawls’s elegant path towards fairness, laid out here by Elorfin.
discuss!
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