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Welcome to tailgate talks podcast. And today we are back with Todd Johnson, as well as with my collaborator, Joel Barker. We spoke with Todd for the first time about two months ago in the thick of the election, right around the time that the Biden to Harris transfer was happening. And since then, we've had an election.
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Donald Trump will be inaugurated as president of the United States tomorrow. And we wanted to sit back down with Todd and see how all of us are feeling about the election. What are our best hopes? What are our fears and how might a group of people,
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group of men like us who have different views about the politics in the U S best able to work together ahead. So with that, I'm going to hand this off to Joel Barker to check in on where things are at for you, Joel.

Tailgate Talks. The OTGC Podcast, No. 3

How are American talking past one another?

A Democrat, an Independent, and a Republican walk into a podcast to discuss the election, inauguration, dogma, heresy, and scientism.

Joel and Leo spent another afternoon with our Republican friend, Todd Johnson, on the day before the recent Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. We focused on how Americans are talking past one other, and considered how the extremes of the Left and Right are tactically similar. The role of expertise in political policy underwent interrogation, opening up possible opportunities for common ground.

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God Bless the algorithm!

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G B's avatar

Well worth the listen. Thank you for the effort that went into creating the format and meeting in the ring, as it were.

One subject comment: I was curious about Mr. Johnson's illustration regarding hiring of black coaches in the NFL. I Googled "percentage of black players in NFL" and was told it's 53.5%, not "around 80%" as I heard it said on the podcast.

Common ground. Weave community. Civil conversation. Onward!

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group of men like us who have different views about the politics in the U S best able to work together ahead. So with that, I'm going to hand this off to Joel Barker to check in on where things are at for you, Joel.