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The Nuance Hour Podcast

Discussions at the intersection of politics, religion, culture, and current events.

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Trevor Adams

Trevor Adams

Emily Fisk

Emily Fisk

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Episode 17: America's Housing Crisis: Everyone's Welcome, Just Not Here
Episode 17: America's Housing Crisis: Everyone's Welcome, Just Not Here

Why are NIMBYs so adamantly against new housing? Are liberals hypocrites on housing? What is a YIMBY? These and other questions are the topics of this episode where we tackle America’s housing crisis. Emily shares what’s wrong with how we build housing with a story from her own street. Trevor shares research into how corporate consolidation has strangled building and turned it into a greed machine, and also explores a strange historical angle: are Americans just not moving anymore, and is that leading to… electing Donald Trump? 

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Episode 16: The Politics of Fear (and Your Brain)
Episode 16: The Politics of Fear (and Your Brain)

This episode of The Nuance Hour starts with a formal logical dilemma presented by Professor Adams and ends with some local Idaho politics beef. In our main segment, we explore how your political affiliation may or may not be predictive of your mental health — depending on who you ask and how you ask it.

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Episode 15: Kitchen Sink: One Year of the Pod, Mailbag, and Two Evil Dougs
Episode 15: Kitchen Sink: One Year of the Pod, Mailbag, and Two Evil Dougs

It’s our one-year anniversary of ranting into microphones, and in this episode, we reflect on the pod and share what we’re dreaming of for year two. While we’re never aiming for performative anger, we’re also thinking about how letting the high emotions of this unique time in history play out has been cathartic and important. 

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Episode 14: Live at Podfort: Where is Modern Protest Music?
Episode 14: Live at Podfort: Where is Modern Protest Music?

The question keeps showing up everywhere — on Substack, in comment sections, in podcasts: where is modern protest music? Recorded live at Podfort during Treefort Music Festival, Emily and Trevor are joined by Rob Lanterman — musician, music writer, and label owner — to answer it.

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Have you added us to your @treefortfest lineup yet?? We’ll be chatting about protest music with friend of the pod, writer, musician, and label owner Robert Lanterman. Our live show at Boise Contemporary Theater on Friday, March 27 at 2:00 is fr
In our latest episode, we finally dive deep into religion—the topic we’ve been promising since day one. We’re thrilled to be joined by Reverend @brcremer who brings serious theological credentials and two decades of pastoral experie
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