God Talks Fighting Fascism with Former Obama Speechwriter David Litt

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Dear Humans,

Is it possible to find political common ground with your brother-in-law who loves Joe Rogan? That’s what we’re discussing today with author and former Obama speechwriter David Litt!

David recently wrote a new book about finding common ground with the brother-in-law in question. It’s called It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground and is out now!

We Discuss:

The recently passed immigration bill and the implications of expanding ICE powers.
Will there even be elections in 2026?
Whether “being hopeful” is dangerously naive or necessary.
Authenticity, populism, and George Carlin’s legacy in the age of Trump.
Finding common ground, respecting differences, and surviving America’s “waves.”
Ice cream!

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0:00.0	Hi there, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Godpod Live. I'm here today with my son and pal Jesus, and we're joined by author and former Obama speechwriter David Litt.
0:17.9	Welcome, David. Is that how you like to be introduced, David?
0:21.2	Yes.
0:21.8	I mean, that's a little formal for normally, but I think for something like this, that
0:25.2	worked.
0:25.8	It's also a little reductive.
0:27.6	It's like, yeah, I wrote speeches for Obama, but I also like, what do you like?
0:34.1	I like ice cream.
0:36.5	I would be happy to be introduced by it,
0:38.3	but I feel like most people like ice cream,
0:40.1	so you don't need to introduce me by that.
0:41.2	Yeah, but it's summertime.
0:42.3	What kind of ice cream do you like?
0:44.6	Right now, the ice cream placed down the street from us,
0:47.2	Cookman Cremery in Asbury Park, New Jersey,
0:48.8	is doing a devil dog ice cream.
0:51.0	And that is, like, that's one of those ice creams where you're like, how come no one did
0:55.0	this sooner? Because it's a fantastic ice cream. What is in devil dog ice cream? So it's like, it is, it is a,
1:01.7	it's a genre, right? Chocolate, some sort of brownish stuff, some sort of marshmallow or stuff.
1:07.1	But for some reason, it does taste like a devil dog, like, you know, the, like the hostess ones, right?
1:12.6	Well, I have a feeling you're going to need to eat a bunch of them today because the big evil
1:17.6	bill just passed. Yeah, it's as some, some stress eating, I think is unfortunately, potentially
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