Cole Johnston and Owen MacDonnell
Recorded
October 27, 2023
Archived
October 27, 2023
39:51 minutes
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Description
Cole Johnston (26) and his "bestie" Owen MacDonnell (25) talk about the origins of their friendship at Cornell University, their participation in the Intergroup Dialogue Project, and how their similar communication styles have made their friendship so strong.Subject Log / Time Code
C and O share memories from pledging together at their fraternity at Cornell University.
C and O remember introducing each other to different pop cultural touchstones and how they were able to be vulnerable with one another in the media they enjoyed.
C and O think about their similar communication styles and how they've gained deep perspective through their man conversations over the years.
C and O reflect on their work with the Intergroup Dialogue Project: a peer-led dialog-based learning model at Cornell that they participated in together and how formative it has become for them.
C and O talk about the minor challenges they've had in their friendship, some of which surrounded C's mistakes while cooking pasta.
C and O imagine where they'll be in 10-20 years.
C and O discuss how others see the strength of their relationship and the ways it's improved over the years.
C and O talk about how they can bring challenging subjects to each other and suspend judgment as they work through them together.
C and O recall their experience on campus during the pandemic and how they held each other up through the trauma and identity issues that surfaced.
C talks about taking O to see his hometown for the first time and how O finally got to see all the things C has told him about over the years.
O asks C about his experience becoming a New Yorker and C talks about visiting Sunset Park for the first time, seeing symbols of the pushback to gentrification, and understanding the race issues there.
Participants
- Cole Johnston
- Owen MacDonnell