We Can Talk About

We review how the nurturant parent moral value system now dominates the discussion on healthcare to the point that even conservatives have conceded defeat... What healthcare used to look like in America... The evolution from whiskey and cork to an actual healthcare plan... The quirky reason we get health insurance through our employer in America... And more... We Can Talk About Podcast Season 1, Episode 13 Healthcare: A Brief History of the Affordable Care Act

We Can Talk About Podcast Season 1, Episode 12 A special interview with Dr. George Lakoff, author of "Don't Think of an Elephant" and other works that are the inspiration for the podcast. We talk emotions, facts, alternate facts, Yogi Berra, KellyAnne Conway, how KellyAnne Conway is kind of like Yogi Berra, systemic causation, mirror neurons, monkeys, electrodes being stuck in monkey brains, French philosophers, French philosophers who didn't know anything about monkey brains, and the problem with college. Among other things...

We Can Talk About Season 1, Episode 11 The Foundation of a Nurturant Society featuring special guest Matt Bruenig, founder of The People's Policy Project https://peoplespolicyproject.org/

We Can Talk About Season 1, Episode 10 Single-Payer Healthcare featuring special guest Charles Gaba creator of ACAsignups.net

We Can Talk About Season 1, Episode 9 Democrats in Coal Country featuring special guest John Williams - Democratic member of West Virginia House of Delegates

Episode 8: Why We Need Government by We Can Talk About

Conservative think tanks discovered that saying “climate change” instead of “global warming” softened the urgency of our existential challenge. In this episode, we explore with celebrity guest Nicholas Pevzner, how to re-frame climate issues and what our possibilities for actually saving us from a brutal heat death really are. This is part 2 of a special 2-part episode. We had a lot to talk about.

Conservative think tanks discovered that saying “climate change” instead of “global warming” softened the urgency of our existential challenge. In this episode, we explore with celebrity guest Nicholas Pevzner, how to re-frame climate issues and what our possibilities for actually saving us from a brutal heat death really are. This is part 1 of a special 2-part episode. We had a lot to talk about. ---- Nicholas Pevzner is the co-founder of Scenario Journal. Scenario Journal is a digital project at the intersection of design and ecology. With each issue, the journal convenes interdisciplinary conversations around shared and contested terminology, on topics that are shaping the future of our built environment. All issues are free and available to the public, and can be found at www.scenariojournal.com

We Can Talk About Podcast Season 1, Episode 6 The Gettysburg Address is a Movie (Three-Act Structure of the Gettysburg Address; the two movies of the 2016 election)

We Can Talk About Podcast Season 1, Episode 5 The Class of Jobs

The hosts bring back Dr. Laura Erickson-Schroth to discuss a brief response to President Trump's tweets about transgender people serving in the military.

We Can Talk About Podcast Season 1, Episode 4 The Gender of Jobs

We Can Talk About Podcast: Season 1, Episode 3 "Born This Way and Gay Rights" An interview with Dr. Laura Erickson-Schroth

We Can Talk About Podcast, Season 1, Episode 2 "What the Wall Is Made Of"

We Can Talk About Podcast: Season 1, Episode 1 "An Intro to Frames"