A Moderate Approach: With Adam Epstein

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele speaks with Tony Award-winning retired Broadway producer turned moderate podcast host, Adam Epstein. The pair discuss the upcoming presidential election, polarization in politics and the need for a more moderate approach. Plus, Israel and Palestine and the protests on college campuses, the potential running mates for Trump and the challenges faced by Kamala Harris.

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0:26.2	Hey folks, welcome to the Michael Steele podcast. It's so great when you get a chance to come and play with me a little bit. I'm joined today by Adam Epstein. He is a Tony Award winning retired Broadway producer whose second act includes a masters in American studies from Brown, where I taught for a little while, and a year of prim time punditry as the lone non-conservative panelists and a sea of pre-Maga commentators on Fox News.
0:30.4	That must have been fun for him.
0:32.3	Adam's disillusion with both political parties
0:34.4	led to the creation of Dirty Moderate
0:36.7	with Adam Epstein, a politically moderate
0:39.4	podcast for lovers of democracy seeking,
0:42.2	and shelter, if you will from polarization and autocracy.
0:47.2	Adam and I get into a array of topics, a very freewheeling conversation,
0:54.7	which I know you're going to enjoy coming up right here
0:58.4	on the Michael Steele podcast next.
1:02.1	We need to listen to people who disagree with us.
1:04.0	Hey, former Congressman Joe Walsh here.
1:06.0	I have a podcast called White Flag with Joe Walsh.
1:09.0	Every week I sit down with people who do not think like me,
1:13.4	and we model how to have respectful conversations,
1:16.3	right, with people we disagree with,
1:18.0	learn to understand.
1:19.4	We gotta do this if we wanna keep this democracy going.
1:23.0	Listen to White Flag with Joe Walsh.
1:25.0	It's a daily podcast or a weekly conversation,
1:28.0	but you can catch a little something every day,
1:30.0	Spotify, Apple, wherever you listen to your podcast.
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