Theme for an artist TV think Tank

I wrote this letter to a friend of mine who did a TV show with me, who bemoaned the fact that there is very little intellectual discussion in the US...and how slogans are replacing actual conversation..and how intelligence is considered "unhip".

Hi Giorgio, Thanks for doing the show with me..It was
really inspiring..I was thinking about what you were
saying about finding truth in a logical fashion..Maybe
we could get a series of ideas/themes together, like
you mentioned, and discuss them, with other artists, a
sort of TV Think Tank..Bill Maher did it for a while
with Politically Incorrect, but they used the Fox
model of "shouting each other down", interrupting each
other, so that the loudest one got the floor. It was
an irritating show. The protocol would have to be
more on the model of improvisation, or Iroquois or
Quaker meeting model, where each speaks until they are
finished and then the next person who wishes to speak
gets the floor..