S3 Ep1: This Is My Story with Megan Westra
This Is My Story is a special season of Impolite Company focused on telling the stories of women who have made voting an act of faith. In th...
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A weekly politics and religion podcast hosted by Nish Weiseth (Cosmopolitan, The BBC, Deseret News) and Amy Sullivan (TIME Magazine, Yahoo News, NYTimes). It's called Impolite Company becaus...
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20 of 44 episodesS3: Coming Soon: A Special Season of Impolite Company
Coming Soon: This Is My Story , a special season of Impolite Company , focused on telling the stories of women who have made voting an act o...
S3 Ep1: "I'm So Tired of Being Yelled At"
Your eyes and ears do not deceive you! We are back with a special Campaign 2020 episode. This episode was recorded before the South Carolina...
S2 Ep9: Religious Liberty in America: From Burning Convents to Baking Cakes
This week Amy is joined by journalist and author Steven Waldman, whose new book SACRED LIBERTY: AMERICA'S LONG, BLOODY, AND ONGOING STRUGGLE...
S2 Ep8: Mayor Pete, Democrats, and the Religious Left
We are back! (Sort of.) With everyone but your condo board president jumping into the Democratic presidential race, and an astonishing numbe...
S2 Ep7: "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Absentee Ballots"
Nish is off this week, so Amy is joined by award-winning journalist Jack Jenkins of Religion News Service for a discussion about the civil r...
S2 Ep6: "Two things can be true at the same time."
This week, we dive right into the midterm elections. What does it mean to be in a country that makes great strides in one midterm election -...
S2 Ep5: "Call it what it is--it's the erasure of Jews."
In this episode, we talk about the massacre of eleven Jews during Shabbat services at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. We discuss t...
S2 Ep4: "We've rallied when a policy did not strike us as fundamentally fair"
This week, Nish talks with Rachel Esplin Odell and Jennifer Walker Thomas, two leaders of the organization Mormon Women for Ethical Governme...
S2 Ep3: "I am done modulating my emotions to protect you from my rage"
In this episode, we are done. Done done done. The Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process is over but we are just getting started. We talk abou...
S2 Ep2: "These freakin' guys"
This week, Nish and Amy talk about the wrong way to do faith outreach, as well as an attempt by a group of LDS women to appeal to the four M...
S2 Ep1: "It's a really horrible time to be a Catholic"
And we are back! Welcome to the Season Two premiere of Impolite Company, in which we discuss new revelations of abuse and coverup in the Cat...
S1 Ep31: The It's-Almost-Time-for-Season-Two! Update
We're just days away from launching the second season of Impolite Company, listeners! In the meantime, we wanted to share this conversation...
S1 Ep30: The Mid-Summer Break Update
In this mini episode, Amy checks in to tell listeners that Impolite Company will be back for Season Two after Labor Day, and bemoans the man...
S1 Ep29: "They're using religion as a sword to harm other people"
Note: This episode was recorded before Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, and before an armed man slaughtered f...
S1 Ep28: "This is one of those moments"
Buckle up, listeners. We recorded this week's episode just an hour or so after Jeff Sessions cited Romans 13 to justify the Trump Administra...
S1 Ep27: "Next question!"
This week we're taking a break from our regular discussions of everything awful and devoting an entire episode to fielding listener question...
S1 Ep26: "Try Googling 'John Hagee and End Times'"
This week, we talk about Vice President Mike Pence's commencement address at Hillsdale College, in which he declared that religiosity is on...
S1 Ep25: "We are swimming in a sea of red flags"
This week, Nish and Amy talk about Trump's belated announcement of a White House faith office, as well as the backlash among Southern Baptis...
S1 Ep24: "Well, that escalated quickly"
We begin this week by discussing the Case of Paul Ryan and the Disappearing Chaplain. But in the time between recording this episode and rel...