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Ask Me About My Hat: Pennsylvania

Ask Me About My Hat

This week Ida speaks with Vera, a mom of three in rural Pennsylvania. Vera shares a story of talking to family members with differing politics. Ida and Vera also discuss their feelings about the Nazi salute that elon musk made during the inaugural events.

Ask Me About My Hat: Street Epistemology

Ask Me About My Hat

This week Ida explains the technique of Street Epistemology-- which is a great way to have productive, safe conversations across political lines. You can learn more about it or take the free online course at streetepistemology.com

Ask Me About My Hat: Alameda, California

Ask Me About My Hat

How do we get to a place where we can listen to each other, better? Should the government allow people to profit off the misfortunes of others? Ida speaks to Dirk from Alameda, an organizer from the Bernie Sanders campaign, about the government, billionaires, the LA fires and more.

Ask Me About My Hat: South Carolina

Ask Me About My Hat

This week Ida talks to Bonnie from South Carolina. They discuss how to talk to someone who is stuck in their beliefs, how families are making decisions where to live based on womens' access to appropriate medical care and how we can try to find common ground and seek to understand others before making assumptions.

Ask Me About My Hat: Suburban Pennsylvania

Ask Me About My Hat

Ida speaks to Evan, who makes a great point about how we all really want the same things (mostly) and we just have different ways of getting there. We all want the best for our families, for our children to be safe etc. Episode also features a discussion on Eggs: are they really necessary? What you can do when egg prices go up. . .

Ask Me About My Hat: Oakland, California

Ask Me About My Hat

Ida speaks with Jordan Owandi from the podcast "Everyday Celebrity" about his political views, racism, and what the country needs. She also gives listeners a tool for how to approach conversations with folks who are entitled, racist, or just obnoxious

Ask Me About My Hat: Northern Wisconsin

Ask Me About My Hat

In this short episode, Ida talks to Katie, from Wisconsin, who planted the seed of change in the mind of someone who had already admitted to himself, the truth.

Ask Me About My Hat: Houston, Texas

Ask Me About My Hat

My first interview with a Trump voter and supporter. I changed my intro after this episode, as he requested that I acknowledge the death of Ashli Babbitt, who died at age 35 during the January 6 riots. We found a few things we agreed on, but many things we do not agree on. However, the important thing is that we could have a conversation without anyone getting up and leaving.

Ask Me About My Hat: Pennsylvania

Ask Me About My Hat

Ida talks to a man from Pennsylvania about critical thinking, politics and how to keep things in perspective. Her guest makes the important observation that perhaps people in previous elections felt there was more at stake-- and often people tune into elections only in time to see misleading commercials and misinformation. How can we encourage better civic engagement between election cycles?

Ask Me About My Hat: Phoenix, Arizona

Ask Me About My Hat

Ida talks to Amber from Phoenix, Arizona. Amber maintains a strong relationship with her parents (Trump supporters)-- but it's not always easy. In fact, they often avoid the topic of politics all together. Still, she is hopeful that exposing her mother to the facts as she knows them, might eventually lead to better outcomes for everyone. Ida and Amber discuss what "true" news even means anymore-- with the advent of AI and folks questioning reality.

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