Wright Thompson
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994 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5d ago
Wright Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And there's something almost beautiful about that, but also really dangerous because it is easier to change your opinion about facts than to give away a feeling that has been stripped from the facts.
And so people will defend those feelings to the death.
You know, I'm willing to entertain almost any conversation about sort of, you know,
my dad's political fundraising.
He's got this great story one time.
I'm going to mess it up a little, but he needed to raise a whole bunch of money for, I think, John Glenn to like qualify for federal matching funds or something.
And he went to Senator Eastland's house, speaking of, you know,
The good and the bad.
Yeah, exactly.
The senator made like a couple of phone calls, and then my dad said, we just got a glass of bourbon, and we sat on his porch in Doddsville and watched one pickup truck after another pull out and drive these checks off.
And he was just like, oh, my God.
You know, this is the 80s and the end of something.
But...
You know, when you start talking about the way I feel about him, I can get really, really defensive.
And I think that's instructive, both in terms of ourself and when we're trying to make a convincing political argument.
I mean, you know, when I'm on my high horse about the
And also like all political arguments.
beliefs are based on feelings, not facts.
And it seems like somewhere along the way, we lost the desire to have and win an argument.
And then we lost the ability.
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