E90. John Wood Jr. Believes in the Importance of Love as a Social Value

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 96 minutes

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John Wood Jr. comes by to talk about Braver Angels, the largest grassroots bipartisan organization in America, focused on the work of political de-polarization. Along the way he and Bridget have a fascinating conversation about his experience being raised by a mother who’s a liberal black Democrat from inner city LA and father who’s a conservative white Republican from Tennessee, and how his white father emphasized the greatness of black culture in the context of the greatness of America and made him proud of being a black man. He and Bridget bond over their similar experiences dealing with their parents’ divorces. They cover how you can engage conflict without suffering the debilitating impact of hatred in your own psychology, being chameleons growing up and learning to integrate all the different parts of themselves as they grew older, how important it is to see the human behind the opinion – especially when it’s one you don’t agree with, what’s truly noble and redeemable in all of our American traditions, and whether Trump is actually racist.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
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0:08.0	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
0:25.0	the drill.
0:27.0	Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friends, send smoke signals, whatever.
0:32.0	We love your feedback and we want to hear from you. your
0:35.0	and send smoke signals, whatever. We love your feedback and we want to hear from you. This week we welcome John Wood Jr.
0:38.0	He is a contributor at Colette and Arrow magazines, a former nominee for Congress,
0:42.0	and a national nominee for Congress,
0:42.5	and a national ambassador for braver angels.
0:45.5	He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three kids.
0:49.1	John is a very interesting, interesting human being who deserves far more attention than he gets in the
0:56.6	space that we all occupy and I hope that you are introduced to another one of my
1:01.6	friends and just a real are introduced to another one of my friends
1:02.8	and just a real original thinker
1:06.2	and somebody who is, I think,
1:08.5	one of the up and coming people to watch
1:11.6	in the discourse.
1:12.8	I'm with John Wood Jr everyone.
1:15.8	Say hello.
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