You Might Be Right Podcast Season 1

Season One

This season of You Might Be Right features conversations with Al Gore, Paul Ryan, Nancy-Ann DeParle, Erskine Bowles, Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker, and other expert guests on a variety of topics, including climate change, affordable housing, and the national debt. In a special episode to end the season, Governors Bredesen and Haslam sit down with renowned author, social scientist, and happiness expert Arthur Brooks to discuss why disagreement is important, how we can disagree better, and how to effectively broaden your perspective.

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What Can We Do About Gun Violence?

September 14, 2022

EPISODE 1: Arne Duncan and David French join Governors Bredesen and Haslam to discuss potential avenues to reducing gun violence in the first episode of You Might be Right

Are We Moving Fast Enough to Address Climate Change?

September 21, 2022

EPISODE 2: To talk climate change, former governors Bredesen and Haslam turned to two fellow Tennesseans: former Vice President Al Gore and Jeff Lyash, the president and CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation’s largest public utility.

Where Do Charter Schools Fit In Public Education?

September 28, 2022

EPISODE 3: Nina Rees and Kaya Henderson join Governors Bredesen and Haslam to discuss the role that charter schools play in public education today.

How Important is it to Address Our National Debt?

October 5, 2022

EPISODE 4: The United States owes its debtors more than $30 trillion. To dig into how the U.S. got here and what’s at stake, the governors call on Paul Ryan, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

What Can Be Done About the Affordable Housing Crisis?

October 19, 2022

What Can Be Done About the Affordable Housing Crisis?

What Still Ails Us a Decade After the Affordable Care Act?

October 26, 2022

EPISODE 6: Nancy-Ann DeParle, former deputy chief of staff to President Obama, and Larry Van Horn, associate professor and director of Health Affairs at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management, join Governors Bredesen and Haslam to discuss the Affordable…

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“I increasingly believe that the essence of leadership ... is to be an eloquent listener.” —Howard H. Baker Jr.

“I increasingly believe that the essence of leadership ... is to be an eloquent listener.”
—Howard H. Baker Jr.