Finding Common Battle Grounds

By Ryan Cragun

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Finding Common Battle Grounds is an attempt by two brothers - one conservative, the other progressive - to have civil conversations about politics, with a little help from their friends.

Episode Date
S05E19 - Mid-Terms, Daylight Savings, France, and Ilhan Omar
Oct 25, 2026
S05E17 - Vote By Mail and Canada Trade War
Sep 12, 2026
S05E17 - Peak Anti-Woke and Democratic Socialists
Aug 18, 2026
S05E16 - Balogun's Bump, Fauci's Fraud, and Iranian Irascibility
Jul 09, 2026
S05E15 - Racialized Policing in the UK and Protesting in Churches
Jun 10, 2026
S05E14 - Trump Robs the IRS and Republicans Make Teachers Informants
May 27, 2026
S05E13 - Oil Shock and Inside Informants
Apr 29, 2026
S05E12 - Never Say Muslim, Insider Trading Among Politicians, and Sea Shanties
Mar 17, 2026
S05E11 - Trump's Holy (Shit) War in the Middle East
Mar 06, 2026
S05E10 - You've Got It MAiD in Canada
Mar 02, 2026
S05E09 - Generational Perspectives on the Economy
Feb 26, 2026
S05E08 - The White Supremacist Take Over of the US Government and Immigration's Influence on Free Speech
Feb 07, 2026
S05E07 - Venezuela, the Donroe Doctrine, and ICE Murders?!?
Jan 09, 2026
S05E06 - DOGE failed, Trump Class Ships, and Fleecing the Government (the DOOM episode)
Dec 30, 2025
S05E05 - Mamdani in New York and Hegseth in Venezuela
Nov 14, 2025
S05E04 - Border Patrol in Chicago and Israel and Hamas Peace Deal
Oct 14, 2025
S05E03 - Trump vs Kimmel: Is free speech dead in America?
Sep 24, 2025
S05E02 - Media Bias and Ryan's Desire to Be a Vulcan
Aug 20, 2025
S05E01 - Sideboob, Sesame Street, and Statistics
Aug 07, 2025
S04E20 - Epstein Diddles MAGA, measles, and USAID deaths
Jul 18, 2025
S04E19 - LA Riots Over ICE Deportations
Jun 12, 2025
S04E18 - Musk Leaves DC and American Exceptionalism
Jun 04, 2025
S04E17 - Trump's New Plane and a Biden Spending Spree?
May 13, 2025
S04E16 – Trump’s Tariffs and Stock Market Volatility
Apr 15, 2025
S04E15 - Tesla Terrorists and Signal Stupidity
Mar 29, 2025
S04E14 - Immigrants and Culture
Feb 23, 2025
S04E13 - Musk Destroys USAID
Feb 09, 2025
S04E12 - Are presidential pardons out of control?
Jan 25, 2025
S04E11 - Was the Killing of United Healthcare's CEO the Government's Fault?
Jan 05, 2025
S04E10 - Did Dating Norms Swing the 2024 Presidential Election?
Dec 12, 2024
S04E09 - Dissection of Trump's Victory and Identity Politics
Nov 13, 2024
S04E08 - Government and Disasters and Is Trump a Fascist?
Oct 26, 2024
S04E07 - Independent Voters in the Presidential Election and a Crisis in Science
Oct 03, 2024
S04E06 - Harris Baits Trump and Brazil Censors X
Sep 14, 2024
S04E05 - Kamala Harris Enters the Race and Ukraine Takes it to Russia
Aug 29, 2024
S04E04 - Assassination Attempt on Trump and Outing Transgender Kids to Their Parents
Jul 18, 2024
S04E03 - Elite's Controlling Biden's Election and the UK's Turn to Labour
Jul 13, 2024
S04E02 - Elon Musk's Pay and Hunter Biden's Conviction
Jun 19, 2024
S04E01 - COVID lab leak and Iranian Nuclear Weapons
May 30, 2024
S03E20 - RFK Jr., Declining Homicide Rates, and White Christian Nationalists
Apr 25, 2024
S03E19 - Norwegian JWs Defunded and Trump's Bloodbath
Mar 28, 2024
S03E18 - A Solution for Israel & Palestine(?) and a Crusader Against Big Tech Consciousness Hacking
Mar 07, 2024
S03E17 - Bail Bonds, a Texas Lawyer, and Google Glitches
Feb 28, 2024
S03E16 - Greg Abbot Defies the Feds, Trump Kills Immigration Reform, and a Senate Candidate
Feb 15, 2024
S03E15 - Utah University Diversity Statements and Goodbye Sociology in Florida
Jan 31, 2024
S03E14 - Child Labor Laws and Religious Commencement Speeches
Jan 18, 2024
S03E13 - Progressives Supporting Hamas and Security Versus Freedom
Dec 09, 2023
S03E12 - Trigger Warnings and the Military Industrial Complex
Nov 04, 2023
S03E11 - Elites and the Disenfranchised, the Florida State Guard (jk), and the FBI Kill a Provo Man
Aug 11, 2023
AI Sex Bots, Trump's Second Indictment, and Reddit Blackout
Jun 15, 2023
S03E09 - Trump Loses, the FBI, and Debt
May 29, 2023
S03E08 - Fox News settlement and confidential document leak
May 02, 2023
S03E07 - Trump Indictment and Social Media Laws for Kids in Utah
Apr 04, 2023
S03E06 - Blasphemy in England, ESG, SVB, and Florida Higher Education Legislation
Mar 17, 2023
S03E05 - Marrying Kids, the 2024 Election, and Migration
Feb 22, 2023
S03E04 - George Santos and US Tanks in Ukraine
Feb 01, 2023
S03E03 - How capitalism is both the problem and the solution
Jan 03, 2023
S03E02 - Busting Unions and a Failed Red Wave
Dec 20, 2022
S03E01 - Voting Felons and Meanie Musk
Nov 29, 2022
S02E21 - Why Josh needs a break from Finding Common Battle Grounds
Nov 09, 2022
S02E20 - What is the correct direction for the country?
Oct 12, 2022
S02E19 - Truth and Reconciliation on Race
Sep 22, 2022
S02E18 - Is The Rings of Power too woke?
Sep 15, 2022
S02E17 - Biden's student loan plan, racism at BYU volleyball game, and the direction of America
Sep 02, 2022
S02E16 - grab bag - mandatory reporting for clergy, Liz Cheney, censorship, and fertility
Aug 19, 2022
S02E15 - facial recognition, Dutch farmers, elitists, Putin, San Francisco & Seattle + bonus content
Aug 06, 2022
S02E14 - masks, DeSantis, China, and working from home
Jul 27, 2022
S02E13 - Should the US government urge corporations to drill for more oil?
Jul 14, 2022
S02E12 - Did the Supreme Court's decision in Hobbs move the court into activism?
Jul 01, 2022
S02E11 - Is the great replacement conspiracy theory real?
May 25, 2022
S02E10 - Will Trump be President again in 2024?
May 16, 2022
S02E09 - Should the federal government ban menthol cigarettes?
May 14, 2022
S02E08 - Should the federal government ban ghost guns?
May 12, 2022
S02E07 - Open Discussion: Disney and Don't Say Gay
Apr 20, 2022
S02E06 - An Open Discussion of: A New Twitter, Biden's Brain, and Will Smith's Slap
Mar 30, 2022
S02E05 - Should there be race or gender quotas for supreme court justices?
Mar 24, 2022
S02E04 - Should the federal government delay student loan payments again?
Mar 15, 2022
S02E03 - Should the US send soldiers to Ukraine?
Mar 02, 2022
S02E02 - Was the January 6th attack on the US Capitol a threat to American democracy?
Feb 17, 2022
S02E01 - Should Joe Rogan be censored?
Jan 26, 2022
S01E20 - What's going to happen in 2022?
Jan 11, 2022
S01E19 - Should prostitution be legal?
Dec 11, 2021
S01E18 - Should Kyle Rittenhouse have been convicted?
Dec 01, 2021
S01E17 - Is Critical Race Theory a big deal?
Nov 17, 2021
S01E16 - Was Trump on his way to becoming a dictator?
Nov 04, 2021
S01E15 - What's behind the gender pay gap?
Oct 15, 2021
S01E14 - Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias?
Oct 02, 2021
S01E13 - Are conservatives anti-science?
Sep 24, 2021
S01E12 - Should abortion be legal?
Sep 07, 2021
S01E11b - Should the US have left Afghanistan - ADDENDUM
Aug 26, 2021
S01E11 - Should the US have left Afghanistan?
Aug 24, 2021
S01E10 - Should there be vaccine mandates?
Aug 10, 2021
S01E09 - Should transwomen be allowed to compete in sports?
Jul 15, 2021
S01E08 - Should we build a border wall?
Jul 01, 2021
S01E07 - Is the two party system broken?
Jun 25, 2021
S01E06 - Should there be more restrictions on guns in the US?
Jun 09, 2021
S01E05 - Is capitalism bad?
May 14, 2021
S01E04 - Are voter restriction laws good?
Apr 24, 2021
S01E03 - Are Twitter bans good?
Apr 10, 2021
S01E02 - Did the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests/riots help?
Apr 03, 2021
S01E01 - Is college worth it?
Mar 23, 2021