Coming to you from the streets of DC, this is Sarah from the left from Vox Conversations

with a special episode of Pant-Soup Politics.

No shouting, no insult, plenty of nuance.

So can you guys both introduce yourselves to our listeners?

Yeah, my name is Josh Fagelson, I'm the founder and executive director of an organization

called Ask Big Questions.

And I'm Andy Stern, the former president of the service employees union and the author

of a book called Raising the Floor about Universal Basic Income.

This is so perfect because at Pant-Soup Politics we've been asking a lot of big questions

about universal basic income.

So this could literally not be a more perfect fit.

Now Ask Big Questions is really concerned about something we talk about a lot

on Pant-Soup Politics, which is the civil discourse.

Can you talk about that for me?

Yeah, so we really focus on helping people have better conversations,

especially across lines of difference.

And we think the most important thing to do in that is to focus on questions

that we all share as human beings.

So we define those questions as questions that matter to everybody

and that everybody can answer, rather than questions that sort of privilege expertise.

And so we really try to get people talking about questions like where do you feel at home

and who are you responsible for and who's in your community.

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