James Humphreys, a political strategist and longtime participant in Utah politics, announced a new podcast and video series called American Common Sense that he said aims to teach basic civic principles and improve public political discussion.

Humphreys described the project as a nonpartisan effort to provide civic education outside traditional party channels. "The more information you have, the better decisions people make," he said, explaining the rationale for the series. He plans to distribute episodes on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts and to use short videos and classroom-style materials to explain constitutional and civic topics.

Humphreys traced his interest in civic education to his early experience at Weber State University, where he worked on saving the Browning Center and later interned in the state legislature. He described hands-on work with legislators and campus leaders that helped secure roughly $21 million, he said, to preserve the university performance space. He also described a history of campaign work, including involvement with campaigns for then-Gov. (name provided in the interview as) Levitt and local and congressional campaigns. Humphreys said part of his motivation is dissatisfaction with the current tone of national political discourse and what he called poor civic education in schools.

On the podcast he plans to produce short, explainers-style pieces "in a nonpartisan fashion" and said he hopes those materials will help citizens have more informed conversations and hold officials accountable. He described the project name as intentionally evocative of Thomas Paine's Common Sense: "It's called American Common Sense," he said.

Humphreys also spoke about his background in advocacy and organizations, including serving as president of Utah Log Cabin Republicans, and said his experience working both behind the scenes and in campaigns shaped his view of how to reach people with civic information. He identified himself during the interview as an openly gay man in Utah and said that background informed his strategic choices about where and how to engage politically.

Humphreys said the project's website was under development at the time of the interview and that social pages and a YouTube channel had been created. He said the materials would be available on common podcast platforms and that he expected to expand with community feedback. The host closed the segment by thanking Humphreys and noting they would return next week with another guest.