I’ve been tracking you since that DNC speech (I think y’all’s people call it “stanning”). No disrespect to your cohost Jess or anything, but you need to do your own podcast, something Like Sarah Longwell’s Focus Group but with conversations with people at your bar kind of deal. Everyone of your deep dives with MPU is like one of those beer commercials where they bring in people who supposedly totally disagree with each other, but after talking for an hour, they’re like yeah I’ll have a beer with you. I don’t agree with you on everything but you’re clearly a human being. We need that unfiltered truth telling so bad in our country right now. Like you could be the antidote to Joe Rogan by just letting actual working class people talk for themselves - not make fun of them, not exploit them, not exploit our divisions for political or monetary gain. Just organizing opportunities to decently and honestly listen to one another.
I think then all the East Coast liberals would realize “hey wait a minute, these are fair points these guys are making. Why is everyone trying to get us to hate each other all the time?” (I think we know why: $$$.) It feels different, it feels good even, to be able to talk and listen again to just regular real people.
The political class has failed us. We need to bootstrap rebuilding this country some other way. One podcast at a time…?
Sorry I can’t give you a paid subscription - Elon and DOGE are hot on my tail so gotta save every penny. But I’m rooting very hard for you and your work!
I’ve been tracking you since that DNC speech (I think y’all’s people call it “stanning”). No disrespect to your cohost Jess or anything, but you need to do your own podcast, something Like Sarah Longwell’s Focus Group but with conversations with people at your bar kind of deal. Everyone of your deep dives with MPU is like one of those beer commercials where they bring in people who supposedly totally disagree with each other, but after talking for an hour, they’re like yeah I’ll have a beer with you. I don’t agree with you on everything but you’re clearly a human being. We need that unfiltered truth telling so bad in our country right now. Like you could be the antidote to Joe Rogan by just letting actual working class people talk for themselves - not make fun of them, not exploit them, not exploit our divisions for political or monetary gain. Just organizing opportunities to decently and honestly listen to one another.
I think then all the East Coast liberals would realize “hey wait a minute, these are fair points these guys are making. Why is everyone trying to get us to hate each other all the time?” (I think we know why: $$$.) It feels different, it feels good even, to be able to talk and listen again to just regular real people.
The political class has failed us. We need to bootstrap rebuilding this country some other way. One podcast at a time…?
Sorry I can’t give you a paid subscription - Elon and DOGE are hot on my tail so gotta save every penny. But I’m rooting very hard for you and your work!
I absolutely love this!!! I’m from a coal mining town and this is exactly what has been happening!
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LFG! We back baby!
so damn back
Dude, you never went away!
Heck yah glad you’re back and will check out the pod, hadn’t tracked that got started!
Great to have you back. The John and Jess podcast has fresh perspectives. I'm looking forward to catching up on back episodes.