We’re generally aware of hopeless idealists, but how many of us have ever actually heard from one? Ellie 2.0 is all about idealism and the journey of one particular idealist—Ellie Krug—as she works to make the world a better place. Only, there’s a slight complicating factor: Ellie’s a 61-year-old transgender woman. That simple demographic sometimes makes things particularly interesting. Or daunting. Where does the “2.0” come in? Because in another life, when Ellie presented as a man and worked for big corporations as a trial attorney—the nickname was “Killer Krug”—there was no place for idealism. Today, remade as her “...
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – November 23, 2024
After 357 episodes, this is the final Ellie 2.0 radio show and podcast In light of how the far right and incoming Trump administration have signaled their intent to continue attack…
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Ellie Krug with Matt – November 20, 2024
Ellie is the host of Ellie 2.0 Radio, airing at 4 PM Saturdays and replayed on Sundays.
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – November 9, 2024
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – October 26, 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 Gutte…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – October 19, 2024
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – October 5, 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…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 28, 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 r…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 21, 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 per…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 7, 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 cr…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 24, 2024
With the DNC convention over, our featured idealist is Adam Kinzinger, the former Illinois congressman who denounced Trump way back in 2016, and later served on the bipartisan Janu…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 17, 2024
This week is an Ellie talking head show. We highlight our featured idealist, Lawrence O’Donnell from MSNBC. Plus we talk about legislation around birth certificates for transgender…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 10, 2024
This week’s featured idealist is retired federal circuit judge J. Michael Luttig, who began as a conservative but found his way to idealism in combatting Donald Trump’s attempts to…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 3, 2024
It’s another Ellie’s Talking Head show! Our featured idealist is the comedian, Trevor Noah, who set up the Trevor Noah Foundation to promote literacy a in his native South Africa.…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – July 27, 2024
My, how the political landscape changed from the last show! That means this week’s featured idealist is none other than President Joe Biden for deciding to relinquish his president…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – July 20, 2024
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – July 13, 2024
It’s an Ellie’s Talking Head show, and we start with the actor, George Clooney, who is also an activist working against genocide and atrocities across the world and who is involved…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – June 8, 2024
With the 80th anniversary of D-Day this week, I thought it fitting to have the acclaimed actor and “late historian” Tom Hanks of Saving Private Ryan as our featured idealist of the…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – June 1, 2024
Another Ellie’s Talking Head show where we begin with this week’s featured idealist, documentarian and filmmaker Ken Burns—you won’t want to miss the clip I share from his recent c…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – May 25, 2024
On this week’s show Ellie was joined by High School student, idealist and founder of Sanya’s Hope for Children, Sanya Pirani. Plus Ellie shares updates on her work on the Eastern C…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – May 11, 2024