From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Friday, January 10th.

On yesterday's show, we had a Beyond Your Bubbles segment with the co-host of the left-right podcast Counterpoints, Ryan Grimm and

Emily Jashinsky, who described themselves respectively as supporters of Bernie Sanders and of J.D. Vance.

And it was very evocative for many of you with listeners writing us text messages from all kinds

of perspectives. Here's just a taste.

One person wrote, Brian, please make a show like this every week.

We need more conversations like this.

And someone else, I don't agree with your conservative guest, but I'm so glad that she's here.

But then we had ones like these.

Having a conversation reaching and

across the aisle is nice, but I don't see the point when Republicans will never cooperate

in compromise. And another one, this podcast reminds me of Hannity and Colmes, an old show,

in that the guy on the supposed left is always the one to fold and give the weak argument.

But then one other person asked, have Emily and Ryan considered giving online classes on how to talk with each other across the aisle?

And so there are those.

But one last one that I'm going to paraphrase because it expired

before I could take a screenshot. But the gist was you have to have a certain amount of comfort

and privilege to indulge in calm discourse across the aisle. If people are trying to take away

your rights, you don't have the luxury of being so nice. So like I say,

the segment yesterday was very evocative and elicited very diverse thoughts and feelings. It's

interesting, and it may be different from the past that even having diverse points of view

on the same platform can be a controversial act. And now we'll talk about one reason that that

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