Episode 2.24: Standing at the Wall of the Middle School Dance

Our friends discuss threatening comments posted in response to Don sharing an article on Facebook about vehicles being used as weapons against protestors, and the limits of engaging violent speech. Amy and Don share their frustration and confusion about exchanges irreconcilable with their desire to connect across differences. Plus, more examples of things that give them strength.

Additional resources:

• "What Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court Nomination Means For The 2020 Election" (NPR, by Deirdre Walsh, September 27, 2020)
  https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/917303199/what-amy-coney-barretts-supreme-court-nomination-means-for-the-2020-election
• "Long-concealed Records Show Trump's Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance" (New York Times, by Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire, September 27, 2020)
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html 
• "Explained: How Trump's strategy to deter 3.5m Black Americans from voting worked in 2016" (YouTube, Channel 4 News, September 28, 2020)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reae0qgZ8bM 
• Ween on Spotify
  https://open.spotify.com/artist/3u1ulLq00Y3bfmq9FfjsPu?autoplay=true 
• "Vehicles are being used as weapons against BLM protesters" (CNN Tonight, by Evan McMorris-Santoro, September 2020)
  https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/09/26/vehicles-weapons-against-protesters-mcmorris-santoro-dnt-ctn-vpx.cnn 
• Iamtabithabrown (TikTok)
  https://www.tiktok.com/@iamtabithabrown 
• "#166 Country of Liars" (ReplyAll, by PJ Vogt, September 18, 2020)
  https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhe5nm 
• "I Won't Let You Down" by OK Go (iTunes)
  https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-wont-let-you-down/1329026488?i=1329026709 

On October 8, 2020, Don and Amy will participate in a virtual session at the Flyover Podcast Festival, hosted online by Dimension Mill. In their 2p session—"Sharing the Messy Parts of Relationships"—they will talk about how they started this podcast, the impact it has had, and what they hope to accomplish by continuing to share their conversations.

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