Ricki Gurwitz
speaker
138 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 22 May
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Roger Griffiths here, chair of the Monk Debates.
Welcome to our post-mainstage debrief with Ricky Gurwitz, the managing director of the Monk Debates, who is responsible for putting together our big mainstage doohosh.
What do we call these things, Ricky?
It was a big debate, a couple thousand people, downtown Toronto.
Let's just begin by reminding our audience what was the debate motion and who was on the stage.
And she hasn't done a lot of public debates like this.
This was her first big kind of public event to talk about American foreign policy.
Yeah.
And this Iran war obviously making this debate all the more relevant and a big reason why we chose the resolution.
So just to remind viewers and listeners that if you are a Munk member, you can access a live stream of the debate depending on your donor level.
And if you're listening to us and you want to
dig into this media debate, there is a live stream pass that people can access the debate on demand and access future debates live as we broadcast them from our
locations here in Toronto.
Ricky, the purpose of these debrief episodes is to kind of lift the rope, so to speak, for our audience to understand a little bit about how we go about building these debates and what goes into them.
So talk to us a little bit about putting this particular
debate together, rave reviews after the fact in terms of this, you know, the substance on the stage, the extent to which they really engaged with each other.
What were you trying to do when you selected these pairs?
What were you kind of looking for when it comes to, you know, a debater that you want to have on our stage and that we're going to go to the time and the expense and the effort, you know, to put on that main stage in front of, in this case, you know, almost 2,500 people in downtown Toronto?
But you have the ultimate responsibility to get them to sign the contract.
So I'm glad I don't have that job.
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