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Kat Timpf on Binary Thinking and Bridging the Divide

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"The best way to fight the system is to stop allowing it to make us so readily fight one another."

Welcome Kat Timpf:

We’re joined on the Starline by a writer, comedian, reporter and libertarian commentator. You’ve seen her on “Gutfeld” and out on her own comedy tour. Her latest book is "I Used To Like You Until... (How Binary Thinking Divides Us)". We welcome Kat Timpf.

Kat, let’s go Beyond the Mic. Why was this book needed and will people take their fingers out of their ears to hear it?

“Once you pick a side or a lens, you no longer have to think, because the thinking has been done for you.” How has hyper-partisanship hurt issues that Newt Gingrich told me “both parties basically agree on”?

“The best way to fight the system is to stop allowing it to make us so readily fight one another.” In creating change people have to take a first step. Who is willing to lead the charge in returning to civility in politics or is Pandora’s Box open?

The Rockin' 8:

It’s time for the Rockin’ 8, 8 random questions, answer with the first thing that comes to your mind. There is no Pressure.

1. Like you I have insomnia. How long do you sleep on an average night?

2. Best thing about your dog Carl and cat Cheens?

3. Have you had any specific pregnancy cravings?

4. Best tour stop?

5. Do you prefer black or blue ink?

6. Which comedians in your lifetime makes you laugh?

7. Are you an optimist, a pessimist or a realist? 

8. Best thing about being from Detroit?

Sneaking in One More:

How has your husband Cameron changed you?

One Big Question:

“When we are ‘immersed in hatred,’ we ‘don’t have to do anything.’” Has social media trolls disintegrated conversations online and how do you fix it?

The Wrap:

She eats way too much peanut butter, thinks she’s a realist and wants you to read her book is "I Used To Like You Until... (How Binary Thinking Divides Us)". Kat Timpf thanks for taking the time to talk with us.

And that my friends is a Beyond the Mic Short Cut.

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