Category: Podcast

May 23, 2022

Mutual Respect: Merkel and Obama with Claudia Clark

We talk to Claudia Clark about her book “Dear Barack” that explains the unique partnership of President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Claudia also gives the European viewpoint of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and finally we discuss her time as a community organizer with the group ACORN.

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May 9, 2022

Reaching out to Secular Students with Kevin Bolling

In this episode we talk to Kevin Bolling, executive director of the Secular Student Alliance, about their effort to reach out to 1.4 million students

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April 25, 2022

Seeing Through the Election Year Theater (Lies and Damn Lies)

The stench of Trump has been absorbed into the corpuscles of the Republican party so that now it isn’t about policies but what fake outrage you support or are against. The electorate suffers. We take a look at some examples of this theater called a primary season here in Ohio.

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April 7, 2022

Ohio Republican’s Supermajority of Bigotry

Elections matter and when you can hold a super majority in the state legislature you can feed your every factless conspiracy theory fever dream and let your bigot flag fly.

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March 11, 2022

Gun Violence Isn’t Always About Gangs And Drugs

Violent crime has spiked recently. Are we wasting time and money with more policing? Can having children be immoral? And where are the vigils and memorials for the thousands who died in the pandemic. One political party has blood on its hands and its initials are G. O. P.

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February 22, 2022

In GOP-land, Ignoring Racism Is The Ideal

We take a look at Michele Tafoya’s white fragility enabled by Tucker Carlson then we look at the Ohio GOP trying to pick their own voters.

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