Episodes

  • Ellie Krug with Matt – November 20, 2024

    Ellie Krug with Matt – November 20, 2024
    Nov 20 2024
    Ellie is the host of Ellie 2.0 Radio, airing at 4 PM Saturdays and replayed on Sundays.
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    16 mins
  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – November 9, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – November 9, 2024
    Nov 11 2024
    41 mins
  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – October 26, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – October 26, 2024
    Oct 28 2024
    We begin this week’s show with two idealists of opposite minds—former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh and gun safety advocate (and father of his murdered daughter, Jaime) Fred Guttenberg. Both hated each other for years until they began to talk human-to-human. Now they are on a speaking tour titled “2 Dads Defending Democracy,” and we air…
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    45 mins
  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – October 19, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – October 19, 2024
    Oct 21 2024
    44 mins
  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – October 5, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – October 5, 2024
    Oct 7 2024
    Wow, we’ve hit the 350-episodes mark! For this show, the featured idealist is the recently deceased Kris Kristofferson, who as a teenager, and way before he was famous, wrote about the wrongs of racism. The Big Interview is with Sarah Curtiss and Ed Heisler, leaders at a Duluth-based nonprofit, Men As Peacemakers. In the C-Block,…
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    45 mins
  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 28, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 28, 2024
    Sep 30 2024
    We’ve got an Ellie’s Talking Head show this week, starting with highlighting idealistic NewGround, an LA-based group that seeks to help Jews and Muslims form friendships and have respectful conversations about their differing views on Palestine. I also share two wonderful stories of compassion—one about a UPS driver who helped a stranger with a life-threatening…
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    43 mins
  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 21, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 21, 2024
    Sep 23 2024
    This week’s featured idealist is Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, the outdoor clothing and adventure store. Early on, Yvon made his mark as an idealist by devoting one percent of Patagonia’s revenue to protecting the environment and fighting climate change. In 2022, Yvon, by then a billionaire, donated his entire company’s stock to a…
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    44 mins
  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 7, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 7, 2024
    Sep 9 2024
    We start with our historical featured idealist, the founder of St. Mary’s Academy in New Orleans: Mother Josephine Charles battled racism and misogyny in the mid-19th century to create a religious school for girls of color. Nearly 160 years later, St. Mary’s had 100% graduation and college admission rates—unheard of in education! The Big Interview…
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    45 mins