Holiday joy, sunshine and pain. Safe spaces and getting deep with loved ones

This week hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Andrew Gillum share personal stories from the holidays, a time of year that can be full of joy and strife.

And we’ll replay a couple of our favorite philosophical segments: 

Is this show a safe space? What is our obligation as a show to create a safe space for ourselves and for the audience, and what does “safe space” mean, anyway? 

AND: is it safer, in life and in relationships with others, to go deep or to stay shallow? We all choose the moments where we reveal our depth to others, or even to ourselves. How do we make those choices?

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We are 684 days away from the election. Happy Holidays y’all! 

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Angela Rye as host, executive producer and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Tiffany Cross as host and producer, Andrew Gillum as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; Loren Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks  to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media. 

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This week’s MiniPod is a replay of this 2024’s top MiniPod as selected by you, our audience. 

Top NLP Episodes | Audience Picks:

1. America IS a Racist Country

2. Are You Tireddd? | MiniPod

3. Hypocrisy of the White Church 

4. Project 2025

5. The Series Finale of America 

6. Say it to My Face  

On this episode the hosts discuss: 

Are you the “Solver” in your friend group? Do you rush to fix other people’s problems even when you weren’t asked? Our hosts have this trait in common, they ask themselves where it comes from. 

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This week hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Andrew Gillum address the drone sightings in New Jersey and the reaction to them. What does this mystery say about the state of our national security, especially considering the very real threats that mainstream media is NOT talking about. 

Why is it that folks got all the time in the world for their lashes or their favorite TV show, but not for getting informed about the policies that directly affect them? Are people just dumber these days, or what??

AND how to keep your peace and sanity in an increasingly insane world; some tips on how to safeguard your mental health during a 2nd Trump term. 

And of course we’ll hear from you! If you’d like to submit a question, check out our tutorial video: www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/

We are 684 days away from the midterm elections. Welcome home y’all! 

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This week hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Andrew Gillum discuss the 90 million eligible voters who sat out this last election. 

Folks are feeling alienated by a political process that often fails to represent their interests. How do we rebuild community and a sense of personal agency within our political system? 

And of course we’ll hear from you! If you’d like to submit a question, check out our tutorial video: www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/

We are 687 days away from the midterm elections. Welcome home y’all! 

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Healthcare CEO murdered, China hacks US phones, Trump DOJ overreach, Syria debrief. 

This week hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Andrew Gillum process the recent shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The response to his death by the public has been callous, at times even celebratory. Our hosts dig into the reasons why. 

We’ve launched Stories from the Ground on nativelandpod.com, a place for you to share news and events with our NLP fam. Check it out! 

The Inspector General for the Department of Justice announced that Trump’s DOJ collected the phone records of members of Congress. We’ll get into what the report says and why it matters. 

More reasons to be careful around your phone: Federal Authorities have warned U.S. citizens about an ongoing Chinese hacking campaign. The hackers are harvesting metadata from major telecom providers (AT&T, Verizon, etc). What exactly are they collecting and what can we do? 

And finally, a debrief on the historic events unfolding in Syria. Syria’s 13-year civil war is over?? 

And of course we’ll hear from you! If you’d like to submit a question, check out our tutorial video: www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/

We are 691 days away from the midterm elections. Welcome home y’all! 

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This week hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Andrew Gillum answer your questions about how to plot a path forward: advice on how to prepare for a second Trump term and threats to democracy, and how to organize politically. Plus, some input on the format of our show.

We appreciate your input so much y’all! We’ve received so many comments and questions since the election, which is why on this town hall-style episode our hosts will answer as many as they can. 

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We are 694 days away from the midterm elections. Welcome home y’all! 

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Who else should be pardoned? The FBI has BEEN the Feds, and horrific prison conditions in Virginia. 

This week hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Andrew Gillum are all about Criminal Justice Reform. President Biden pardoned his son and all the breathless media coverage has completely missed the point. Who else could he pardon–and why hasn’t he?? 

Meanwhile, conditions inside of American prisons are so inhumane, that prisoners at one Virginia State institution have been lighting themselves on fire in protest. Tiffany guides us on a deepdive into Red Onion State Prison. 

And Trump has proposed a new director for the FBI, Kash Patel, who’s threatening to disband the FBI’s Washington bureau and fire its leadership. Sometimes politics makes for strange bedfellows… 

Does the hypocrisy of Mitch McConnell know no bounds? He’s been sounding off on Federal judges who have reneged on retirement since Trump won, calling it “naked partisanship.” Mitch, please. 

And of course we’ll hear from you, our #NLPFam listeners. If you’d like to submit a question, check out our tutorial video: www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/

We are 698 days away from the midterm elections. Welcome home y’all! 

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Listener Comments, Project 2025, presidential immunity, and what can Biden do before inauguration? 

This week hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Andrew Gillum share some of the amazing comments we’ve gotten from you, our NLP fam, along with a replay of three of our best segments that feel especially relevant now: 

What’s up with Project 2025? The 900+ page document that outlines the republican plan to replace tens of thousands of public employees in the FBI, Department of Justice, and more with conservative loyalists. The plan could change the federal government as we know it. 

IMMUNE. That’s what the Supreme Court said a president will be for any “official” act taken while in office. To quote the dissenting opinion written by Justice Sotomayor, “Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune… In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.”

AND Biden’s laid out some of his priorities for the remainder of his term, like Supreme Court reform, but how can he actually get that done? And what other bold actions could he take now that he’s a lame duck? The hosts dream BIG. 

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We are 706 days away from the midterm election. Welcome home y’all! 

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Hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Andrew Gillum question whether the Democratic Party is still capable of keeping together its diverse Rainbow Coalition. Many folks in the base of the party felt abandoned by a Harris/Walz campaign that tried to appeal to moderate Republicans. Then pundits blamed “wokeness” for Kamala Harris’ loss. 

Are there too many conflicting interests to hold together under the Democrats’ “big tent”?

This discussion was in part inspired by one of you, our #NLPFam listeners. If you’d like to submit a question, check out our tutorial video: www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/

We are 708 days away from midterm elections. Welcome home y’all! 

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This week hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Andrew Gillum discuss the future of NLP. We’ve heard from you all and appreciate your words of support so much! 

With all the insanity happening in national politics you may have missed state governments forcing Christianity into their public schools. Tiffany brings us up to speed and offers some calls to action. 

The media has said that Trump may use a workaround called “recess appointments” to skip the Senate confirmation process for his more controversial cabinet picks (see the accused Matt Gaetz). But what are recess appointments, when have they been used in the past, and how does that compare to how Trump might use them now? 

And in a discussion that’s to be continued on our next MiniPod–is the Rainbow Coalition of the Dem Party dying? Already dead?? 

And of course we’ll hear from you, our #NLPFam listeners. If you’d like to submit a question, check out our tutorial video: www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/

We are 712 days away from the midterm election. Welcome home y’all! 

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This week hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Andrew Gillum discuss where Democrats and the Harris/Walz campaign went wrong and how Trump won this election. 

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We are 715 days away from the midterm elections. Welcome home y’all! 

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