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Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Is Deep Canvassing The Serum America Needs? with George Goehl

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Are you phone banking, leafleting, and heading to the polls early this election season and still feeling like you need a boost? Then it might be time to introduce deep canvassing to your routine. The activist, community organizer, and director of People’s Action George Goehl joins Jonathan to share this go-to practice for building a more progressive nation—and explains why rural America needs to be central to any discussion of the electorate. Follow George on Twitter @GeorgeGoehl, and People’s Action on Twitter and Instagram @pplsaction. Once you’ve finished the episode, make sure to check out George’s podcast To See Each Other. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Vanness, and every week I sit down for a 40-minute conversation

0:05.2

with a brilliant expert told in all about something that makes me curious.

0:09.3

On today's episode, I'm joined by the activist, community organizer, and director of People's Action,

0:15.0

George Gale, where I ask him, what's at stake for World Voters this election, and is

0:21.1

deep-cannot seeing this season's New Hyaluronic acid?

0:25.1

Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Vanness, I'm so excited for our guest this week.

0:31.2

We have George Gale. He is the director of People's Action, one of the largest multi-racial

0:36.4

porn working class people's organizations in the country. He's also from Madura, Indiana,

0:42.0

so we're state neighbors, and also you have a new podcast, which is called To See Each Other.

0:48.0

And like I said earlier, you were the director of People's Action, but also a really fun thing is,

0:52.9

is that when we first interviewed Alicia Garza, I believe it was, I can't remember

0:59.2

was our first or second interview, but she mentioned her friend, George. And so I just loved it that,

1:05.9

I don't think she mentioned your last name there, but I loved the full world,

1:09.8

the full circle, the seventh. So welcome to the podcast, I'm so excited you're here.

1:14.8

Hey, thanks so much for having me, really, this is gonna be fun. So each episode of Getting Curious

1:20.0

is a question. And for our episode, what I wanted to talk about is, who is rural America,

1:27.2

and how are they changing? But I think that the deeper narrative that I'm speaking to is this one

1:34.3

that I experienced, which is I was born in a, you know, small, you know, blows 60,000 person, small

1:41.6

Midwestern town. I dreamt of getting out of it. My, you know, my whole coming up, I wanted to get

1:47.2

to a place where people work on to accept me and blah, blah, blah. And I, and you know, now I'm,

1:53.6

I live in Texas. I had lived in New York prior to that California. And, you know, obviously because

2:00.2

of the Electoral College, me being from Illinois, in luckily Chicago being there, like my electoral

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