Jenny Holland's Crusade To Save Culture, One Landmine At a Time
About this episode
Meghan Daum and Jenny Holland discuss cultural critiques, political advocacy, and the evolution of journalism.
This (almost) Fourth of July conversation originally appeared on Jenny Holland's channel, Saving Culture From Itself , but it's really a "collab," as they say in the pod-biz. Meghan has talked with Jenny before on YouTube livestreams, but this is the first time they've done an official podcast together. This conversation kept circling back to the kinds of tripwires and trigger points that cause people to tune out ideas before they even hear them—for instance my advocacy for Spencer Pratt in the L.A. mayoral race a few months ago and Jenny's support of . . . Brexit. (She lives in Belfast in Northern Ireland.) We also talked about how Meghan began her career at the tail end of the golden age of magazine journalism, and what it was like watching that world start to shift around 2012-13. Finally, in the spirit of the season, they talked about American exceptionalism, generosity of spirit, and Jenny's husband's 1987 trip to the US as part of the "Children of the Troubles" program — the trip that made him fall in love with this country. Catch more of Jenny's cultural critiques directly on her YouTube channel: 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@SavingCultureFromItself 🎙️ About Our Guest Jenny…
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