About this episode
Something worth saying up front: this is a new show.You may know Tyler from Not Your Teacher, a solo podcast he's been running for a while now. This is different. We Are the Traffic is a co-hosted conversation between Tyler Lewke and Ally Gregory, and it exists because the two of them kept having the kind of honest, wandering, hard-to-categorize conversations that felt too good to keep to themselves.The name came from a four-year-old. Ally's son Juniper, stuck in traffic, asked why everything was stopped. Ally explained that everyone was waiting for the traffic to clear. Juniper looked at her and said: but we are the traffic.That's the show. We are not observers of the mess. We are the mess. And the only honest place to start is there.In this first episode, Tyler and Ally follow a single question all the way down: what happens when we choose inquiry over outrage?Language isn't just how we communicate. It's how we see, or erase, the person in front of us. From pronouns to the talk a brother-in-law didn't know how to give, to a hug that quietly changed everything, this conversation is about the space between understanding someone and honoring them.You don't have to understand it. You just have to honor it.This is episode one. This is where it starts.No way out but in.
