Chopping it up with Ronald Young Jr. About Building Dialogue When The Stakes Aren’t Equal

About this episode

Chenjerai and Ronald Young Jr. discuss identity, health, and the nature of debate in their latest conversation.

Text the Unruly Hotline Here This week, the show features a long conversation between Chenjerai and his good friend Ronald Young Jr. Ronald is the creator and host of Weight For It, an award-winning narrative podcast that explores the ways we think about our bodies. They talk about the latest season of the show, which gets deep into questions of identity, safety, and what health even means. And they also have a long discussion about how people argue - the consequences of debate as sport, how ...

People in this episode

Host: Chenjerai

Guest: Ronald Young Jr.

Topics covered

• dialogue
• identity
• health
• debate
• safety

Keywords

• dialogue
• identity
• health
• debate
• Ronald Young Jr.
• Weight For It

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Books & works: Weight For It

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