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For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Left & Right CAN Be Friends: Searching for Truth with Pantsuit Politics’ Beth & Sarah

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In the immortal words of Jack Nicholson, can you handle the truth? We think you can, and we’re excited to start a new series that dives into the murky world of truth-telling in our culture today: For the Love of Finding the Truth! Skewing the truth is nothing new—bias exists everywhere—but in the pre-social media era, it was a smidge easier to parse through what was real and what wasn’t. With the massive growth of online communities, there are more ways to get information than ever before—and more organizations looking to feed the information they want us to have (#fakenews). Kicking off the series are two women dedicated to sifting through the mountains of information hurled at us each day and understanding it from differing perspectives. Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers (who go by “Sarah from the left” and “Beth from the right”) stand a few feet from each other on the political spectrum, but are still friends—good friends. And they’re leading the way on how to have grace-filled political conversations, which they do each week on their highly acclaimed podcast Pantsuit Politics. Lucky for us, they wrote a whole book called I Think You’re Wrong (But I’m Listening) to remind us that relationship is always more important than being right. Plus, Sarah and Beth answer some burning political questions like: how does the Electoral College work and why is everyone in a twist about it? Gerrymandering—why should I care? And what’s gonna happen in 2020?? The Pantsuit ladies break it all down and give us thoughtful explanations and opinions, showing us how truth can be revealed through knowledge wherever you stand.

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, my name is Remy.

0:03.6

Welcome to the For The Love Podcast with your host, Jen Hatmaker, my mom.

0:09.3

She writes books and speaks to crowds, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people

0:14.8

on this podcast every week.

0:17.2

Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed the show.

0:20.1

Hey everybody, Jen Hatmaker here.

0:23.1

I am your happy host of The For The Love Podcast.

0:27.3

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

0:28.8

Thanks for being here.

0:31.2

So this episode is the first in a brand new series that me and the whole team are really

0:38.0

excited about.

0:40.4

And it's called For The Love of Finding the Truth.

0:44.8

Okay?

0:45.8

Just a little topic none of us have been thinking about over the past couple of years.

0:52.1

It's just an interesting time to be alive and finding the truth has probably never been

0:56.7

a bigger deal to me.

0:57.7

And I wonder if a lot of you feel the same way.

1:00.0

And just over the last couple of years, it feels like ideas and ideals and people that

1:07.9

we have held in very high esteem in a number of areas have just crumbled away or disappointed

1:14.0

us or even betrayed us.

1:15.8

And I mean, skewing one direction never in our lives have we heard the words fake news

1:21.8

more than we have since 2016.

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