-What public issue(s) will be discussed in this real talk?

-Who will be included in this real talk?

-What needs to be said in this real talk and what does not?

-How will you say what needs to be said in this real talk?

-When will you have this real talk and why at that moment?

-What is the point of having this real talk with these persons? (for example, awareness? authoring? action?)

-How will you conclude this real talk? How will you return to it? And when?

-Who are the individuals and/or disaggregated and aggregated groups involved with the public issue(s) discussed in this real talk? How is their humanity (dis)respected?

-Lesson, unit, event?

-Team or individual real talk?

-Face-to-face, virtual, hybrid?

-What visual(s), language(s), narrative(s) and/or counternarrative(s) are involved with the public issue(s) that will be discussed in this real talk?

-What views have (not) changed about the public issue(s) that will be discussed in this real talk? And why?

-Who individually or collectively benefits from (mis)understanding the public issue(s) that will be discussed in this real talk? And how?​

-How is money, business, and/or ownership involved with the public issue(s) that will be discussed in this real talk? And how is support or opposition related to this public issue funded?

-Which place(s) and/or ordinance zone(s) are involved with the public issue(s) that will be discussed in this real talk?

-What is the impact of the public issue(s) among those below the median income? At the median income? Above the median income? And what is important about the relative and absolute differences between these income groups?

-Is there evidence that the public issue(s) that will be discussed in this real talk involve insecurity, loss, inequality, solidarity, or upward mobility? And for whom?

-What institutions and ideologies are involved with the public issue(s) that will be discussed in this real talk?

-Who are the leaders involved with the public issue(s) discussed in this real talk?

-Which interest group(s), lobbies, and/or political parties are involved with the public issue(s) that will be discussed in this real talk? What are the competing and the complementary views of those group(s), lobbyist(s) and/or parties? And what do those group(s), lobbyist(s) and/or parties say they are for? Compared to what those group(s) and/or parties have said they are for, what do records show that they have done thus far?

-How have enabling or blocking coalitions shaped the public issue(s) discussed in this real talk?