Emmett Hohensee and Dane Winkler

Recorded January 4, 2023 Archived January 4, 2023 46:16 minutes
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Description

One Small Step conversation partners Emmett Hohensee (36) and Dane Winkler (40) discuss illness, losing loved ones over politics, anger, travel and what they've learned recently through their studies and local community spots.

Subject Log / Time Code

Emmett Hohensee (E) explains his son's diagnosis of HLHS to Dane Winkler (D) after D asks E about that detail of his bio.
E brings up losing friends/family because of politics in the last year and asks D how it's been for him.
D names "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and defines it as a lingering hatred or anger that in citizens of America who feel comfortable being more publicly hateful/rageful during and after Trump's presidency.
E and D agree that media influence on "wedge issues" is often inflammatory and negative. D talks more about not subscribing to mainstream media.
E talks about the family business: creating antennas for military radios and describes traveling a lot in a white van.
E asks D where's the wildest place he's ever been to. E shares that it was staying with locals and near lions in Timbuktu. D talks about going on a mission trip and playing sports with the children he met there.
E shares that he is in theology school and recently learned about the cruelty of Roman slavery system rules, noting it was not permissible to sell a person into slavery more than once unless it was your own child.
D gets a leg cramp and stands up to stretch. Both D and E begin sharing how they get their daily potassium in. E can't get it from bananas because he doesn't like them. Wishes he did.
D talks about Thomas Payne and learning more about him recently via a children's picture book while at the library with his son. Noted that Thomas Payne became an activist after spending his childhood witnessing people get hanged.

Participants

  • Emmett Hohensee
  • Dane Winkler

Partnership Type

Outreach

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