Disagreeing Better with Utah Governor Spencer Cox

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Amidst a contentious election season and increased political polarization, how can we disagree better? Sharon McMahon sits down with Utah Governor Spencer Cox to talk about how love your neighbors, especially the ones you disagree with. He tells us how to be architects instead of arsonists, builders instead of destroyers.

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0:00.0	Here's where it gets interesting is now available ad free.
0:04.0	Head to Sharon McMahon.com slash ad free to subscribe today. Hello friends welcome.
0:15.0	welcome so delighted to have you with me today.
0:18.5	My guest is the governor of Utah Spencer Cox and we have so much to talk about, like how to disagree better, and why he
0:29.1	might consider endorsing a certain political candidate for president. So let's dive in. I'm
0:36.7	Sharon McMahon. And here's where it gets interesting. I am really excited to be chatting with Governor Spencer Cox from the great state of Utah. Welcome.
0:48.0	Thank you so much for having me. I've been looking forward to this for a long time, Sharon.
0:52.0	It's been a long time coming. I'm glad we finally made it work me too me too
0:55.6	Thank you for having me first of all if people are not from Utah if they're not familiar with you can you talk for just a second about like how does
1:03.6	one even get to be a governor? It seems like a like did you grow up in the
1:08.4	governor's mansion? How do you get to be the governor of the whole state?
1:12.0	Well I'm the least likely person to ever become governor in Utah.
1:16.0	I think I grew up in a very small town in the middle of Utah, in the mountains, a town of 1,200 people,
1:21.0	and my family's been there since those pioneers came and settled that area,
1:26.0	living on the same farm that my great-great-grandfather settled over 160 years ago.
1:30.0	I met my wife in high school, she was in the small town next to us and we decided we
1:34.7	wanted to move away from the farms and never come back and so we did and went to
1:39.8	school I went to law school back in Virginia at a place called Washington and Lee and we came back to Utah.
1:45.2	I worked for a big law firm for a couple years and then realized we had three boys at the time,
1:50.8	realized that we couldn't wait to go back and raise our kids on the same
1:54.9	farms that we grew up on and make them as miserable as we were. You know that's what
2:00.6	parents do. So move back and I'd been back for a few months when a friend of mine came and said there's a vacancy on the city council
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