Ep. 29 Politics, Midterms, and Voting (oh, my) with Harris Cohn

This week we are joined by Harris Cohn. Harris' day job is in renewable energy, but his real super power is that he is an activist and organizer in his spare time. We talk this week about how Harris got interested in politics, how you can get involved in your local elections, and what SNL cast member Harris wants to write this life story.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck

• City of Thieves by David Benioff

• The 25th Hour by David Benioff

• Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

• The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston

• My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

• Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

• Danny Champion of the World by Roald Dahl

• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

• In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck

• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (Audiobook)

• Dreams of my Father by Barack Obama (Audiobook)

• Becoming by Michelle Obama

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

• How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

• 1491 by Charles C. Mann

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

• Matilda by Roald Dahl

• The BFG by Roald Dahl

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

• Red Sun Series by Pierce Brown

• There's a Wocket in my Pocket by Dr. Seuss

• Elizabeth Kolbert (The New Yorker)

• Vann R. Newkirk II (The Atlantic)

• Top Golf

• The Last Weekend

• Swing Left

• Move On

• Indivisible

• Organizing for Action

• Check Your Voter Registration Status

• "Eric Holder on the Chaos Inside the White House and the Importance of November" (Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air & The Ringer)

• Game of Thrones (HBO)

• Amanda Peet

• 25th Hour (Buena Vista Pictures)

• Spike Lee

• Ed Norton

• Philip Seymour Hoffman

• Lin Manuel Miranda

• Hamilton (The Nederlander Organization)

• In The Heights (The Nederlander Organization)

• Marry Poppins Returns (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

• Moana (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

• Stephen Sondheim

• Barbara Streisand

• Andrew Lloyd Webber

• Cats (The Shubert Organization)

• Elton John

• Hans Zimmer

• Christopher Nolan

• "The Stacks Book Club -- Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward" (Traci Thomas)

• The Ripped Bodice (A Romantic Bookstore)

• Saturday Night Live (NBC)

• Kate McKinnon

• Leslie Jones

• Kenan Thompson

• Beck Bennett

• Michael Che

• Colin Jost

• Lorne Michaels

• Seth Meyers

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