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Talk of Ages

Kamy Akhavan of ProCon.org

Talk of Ages

Mike Tully

Music, Music History, Jasonellisshowsiriusxmmadscientistpartyhour

51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

ProCon.org's Kamy Akhavan discusses his organization's mission of encouraging non-partisan consideration of hot button issues, then talks to Tully about the most compelling arguments on both sides of debates like immigration, taxes, and climate change.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, you ready to start this show?

0:05.0

Your host to the evening is a really funny dude.

0:07.0

I forgot his last name, but I've seen him before and he's really funny.

0:11.0

Give it up for Mike. Coming to you live on tape.

0:15.0

Coming to you live on tape.

0:19.0

From the Lucky 13th floor of a commercial high rise in beautiful Beverly Hills adjacent California

0:26.2

from the studios of Sirius XM West boasting an obstructed view of the world famous Hollywood side.

0:34.3

This is the Tully show.

0:36.0

I am your host, Mike Tully.

0:38.6

Joining me today, Kamiakavan of ProKongKong, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting critical

0:47.4

thinking education and informed citizenship by presenting controversial

0:52.3

issues in a straightforward nonpartisan fashion.

0:56.0

I know it sounds very exciting when you put it that way and yet I have really been looking forward

1:00.7

to speaking to you.

1:01.7

Kami thank you very much for coming by.

1:03.4

My great pleasure, thanks Mike.

1:06.0

So I think the first people, we have so much information newswise nowadays.

1:12.4

I think the easiest thing to do what many of us do

1:15.1

without even maybe realizing it is when we get a new source of information we go

1:19.1

how can I immediately discredit this because I've already got so many other things to

1:23.4

consider it would just be great if I could say oh I don't have to listen to that so

1:27.4

is it true that you are secretly funded by the Koch brothers or George Soros

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