Bonus Episode: How Do We Make Our Debates Happen?

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🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In this special episode of Intelligence Squared U.S., host and moderator John Donvan sits down with our newly appointed CEO Clea Conner to pull back the curtain on how we make our debates, choose debaters, and talk about what happens off the stage. A message from our sponsor: Get 20% off your first purchase by going to nativedeodorant.com and entering promo code DEBATE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Imagine being transported to Universal Orlando resort.
0:04.7	Three incredible theme parks, full of twists and turns. You can race alongside
0:10.4	raptors on Jurassic World Velocicoster, joining the mystery with illuminations minions,
0:17.2	and Makersplash at Universal volcano bay. Book Universal Orlando for 2024 with Virgin
0:24.3	Atlantic holidays at your local store on the phone or at virginholidays.co.uk.
0:29.9	Hey everybody, I'm John Donovan, host and moderator of Intelligence Squared US debates,
0:34.4	and we have just wrapped up our fall season of debates. The fall season of our 13th year,
0:40.8	we're at 170 something debates at this point which amazes me. This season we took on a number
0:47.3	of really interesting issues. We looked at US policy in the Middle East. We debated Medicare for all,
0:53.5	regulations of big tech, we debated parenting, we debated capitalism, and there were fantastic
0:59.9	debates and you can find them all right now in your podcast feed, the same feed in which you're
1:04.0	listening to this podcast. This podcast is going to be a little bit different. It's not going to
1:07.9	be a debate. It's because our team is gearing up for next season as I speak. We're launching in
1:12.6	January, but this week we're going to do something we have never done before and we're going to
1:17.6	pull back the curtain on Intelligence Squared US. A lot of times over the years, I've been asked by
1:24.1	by you, our listeners and by people of the debates, how do you pull it all together, how do these
1:28.1	debates come together, how do you pick your topics, how do you pick your debaters, and we've decided
1:33.3	today to answer some of these questions, but I'm not going to do it alone because joining me is our
1:40.0	CEO, Claire Conner Chang. She is CEO of Intelligence Squared US and we're going to be talking about what
1:46.1	happens off the stage and how it is that we get to get two teams of two ready to battle out
1:51.7	over our one resolution. We're civil discourse. We hope always wins. So Claire, welcome to the
1:57.5	Intelligence Squared US podcast. Thank you, John. So I think I think you're going to be interviewing me.
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