Pest Pods

25 year old Gyöngyösi Emese (family name comes first in Hungary)describes her interest in environmental education and what happened to her while helping refugees in Keleti Station in the summer of 2015.

As our first episode in this grand experiment to interview young people in Central Europe about their experience and views of the world and their lives, we speak with Lili Heller, the grand daughter of philosopher Agnes Heller. We being our conversation, recorded at a noisy cafe in central Budapest, talking about how Hungarians are often regarded as pessimists and Americans as somewhat naive optimists.