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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 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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Episode 13: Epistemic Crisis: Processing Minneapolis and Our Country’s Fraying
Episode 13: Epistemic Crisis: Processing Minneapolis and Our Country’s Fraying

In this episode, we drop any pretense of emotional distance and sit with the rage, grief, and fear stirred up by the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis and the broader wave of state violence and ICE abuses.

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