The Realignment: Greetings from Miami, taking a break, and help plan our next debate/discussion episode
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Welcome Back to The Realignment
Greetings from Miami. I’m writing this email before I get ready to head to the airport.
Quick note, after a heavy volume of audience member emails (thanks for the support and kind thoughts, seriously) we’ve decided that we’re going to take the upcoming Tuesday and Thursday off for vacation.
We plan on publishing quick promotions of our Supercast since next week’s the last of our April soft launch. On Friday though, we’re going to publish another one of the Marshall + Saagar debate/discussion episodes you all enjoy so much.
Here’s last week’s live-recorded episode if you missed it.
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What’s Coming Next Week?
As mentioned above, we’re taking Tuesday and Thursday off, but we’ll release a discussion and debate episode. Part of what we’re working on during the off-time is the show’s expanded content/schedule.
Something I’m curious about is what topics/framings do you like Saagar and I to take during the one-on-ones? Is it better when we debate a big topic like “should we trust the intelligence community?” or “Should NATO/Finland be let into NATO?” or should we stick to a casual back-and-forth.
We’re both new to the format, but I think it really worked last week during Breaking Points and on the show right after.
This Week’s Episodes
235 | Mike Solana Returns: A Heretical View of Silicon Valley
234 | Yascha Mounk: Can Diverse and Divided Democracies Survive?
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The Realignment: Greetings from Miami, taking a break, and help plan our next debate/discussion episode
First off, you’re both a breath of fresh air amongst younger intellectuals in these spaces. Both of your heterodox takes is much more representative of what the greater society feels. Keeping in that vein I’d prefer to avoid the blatant left/right topics (i.e. abortion, immigration in the sense of good or bad, and the like) where it’s so fractious and there is no apparent compromise. Instead topics like, third and fourth order consequences of twitters new ownership. Will it disrupt the social offshoots like rumble and parlor, was that the actual goal, will forced interactions with each other improve social debates between the left and the right? Also some South America and Mexico topics, for example healthcare and citizens going south for treatments, Mexico’s want for a border wall at their southern border, and others that I’m unaware of. That’s it, y’all have a great product, keep it up.
Marshall you're so much more neutral than saagar and it's great listening to you! Saagar has been more and more right leaning lately and it's refreshing hearing you. You're doing great lately with your interviews and you're becoming one of the best interviewers in the podcast field. Keep rocking