Released: November 25. 2011

Why can’t we all just get along (and why do people think that question is funny)?

 

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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