What Keeps You Up at Night?

Erica Beshears Perel, Director of the University of North Carolina's Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media joins Lynn Schmidt to discuss the what the loss of local media means to American society and some solutions that innovators are already doing

Lynn Schmidt hosts a solo podcast and share why Project 2025 and the current state of America's politics keeps her up at night. She dives into details about Project 2025, what a possible second Trump administration might bring, the current state of the race with Pres. Biden, and why this election should really be viewed through the lens of checks and balances.  https://thefulcrum.us/

Author and co-founder of NewsGuard Steven Brill sits down with Lynn Schmidt and shares how we got to a place where there is little shared truths and offers some practical solutions for what we can do about it. 

Ken Block, data analyst and author of the new book "Disproven", talks with Lynn Schmidt about his unbiased search for voter fraud in the 2020 election, the data that shows Donald Trump lost, and how to push back on election denialism.

  Former FBI Director James Comey talks with Lynn Schmidt about his newest crime novel "Westport", the real threat that Donald Trump poses to our democracy and the rule of law, and why he is optimistic about our future. 

 Nick Troiano, executive director of Unite America talks with Lynn Schmidt about political polarization and extremism and how modernizing partisan primaries might be the primary solution https://www.uniteamerica.org/

Best-selling children's book author Christen Jeschke discusses why the cicada broods shouldn't keep you up at night and shares the inspiration behind her book "Cicadas Don't Bug Me"    Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Christen-M-Jeschke/author/B093MP8F9J

Best-selling children's book author Christen Jeschke discusses why the cicada broods shouldn't keep you up at night and shares the inspiration behind her book "Cicadas Don't Bug Me"    Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Christen-M-Jeschke/author/B093MP8F9J

Political scientist and author of "The Rural Voter. The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America" Nicholas Jacobs joins Lynn Schmidt for some political wonkery. They discuss the misconceptions of rural voters and why we should all work to overcome the "Us versus Them" mentality. 

Futurist Ari Wallach talks about his PBS docuseries "A Brief History of the Future" and how innovators and entrepreneurs are addressing the four big megatrends facing all of us.  

Co-founder and president of the San Francisco Briones Society Jay Donde and Lynn Schmidt talk about the practical ways principled conservatives can engage in progressive enclaves.  Show notes: Click to read Lynn's column about the closure of a north city Walgreens.

The Washington Post's national political reporter Isaac Arnsdorf talks with Lynn Schmidt about his new book "Finish What We Started. The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy" and the ways the radicalized MAGA movement has transformed Republican Party politics from the ground up.