Civics, Y'all!

Our second "live" episode featuring CT Cook, Maurice Ruffin, Jadi and Noel.

This conversation went "long," but it's sooooo good.

Also, Noel and our guest Maurice Carlos Ruffin just kept talking after we ended this session and that content is only available on our Patreon. Show Patreon if you want to listen!

Hi y'all! We're trying something new today - "live" episodes that we record and post without any editing. All three co-hosts will drop in to a live episode, as well as guests from previous episodes.

This first episode features Emilie, Noel and Toby from Episode 8. 

Show notes added later.

Emilie, Jadi and Noel talk about their voting experiences - plus special guests Thomas and Toby, a listener of the show and his 18 year old son who voted for the first time.

Show Notes

The Handmaid's Tale

Flock of Seagulls (the band)

Mine! meme

Citizen Kang (Treehouse of Horror)

Knock the House

Public Citizen

2020 General Election Early Voting Map

2000 election (hanging chads)

political alignment quiz

Generation Z and socialism

Louisiana "I Voted" stickers

Becoming One Nation Party

Andrew Yang

Elizabeth Warren

Amy Klobuchar

Pete Buttigieg

Cory Booker

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We talk about alllllll of the Louisiana Senate Candidates, the Representative and DA races and touch on the judges, municipal court and school board races.

Show Notes

Teofimo Lopez v Vasiliy Lomachenko fight

Louisiana sample ballot

DSA Voter Guide

538 polls

Mayors for a Guaranteed Income UBI experiment

Why say "unhoused" instead of "homeless"?

Libertarianism

Reparations

Charter schools in Louisiana

Flip the Bench

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If you're hearing Bonnie Tyler's voice singing this week's title, that is no accident. I'm currently listening to her song "I Need a Hero" (which I "accidentally" typed as "her" first).

In this conversation, Jadi and I talk with New Orleans author (and one of my best friends) Maurice Carlos Ruffin about Kanye West and the rest of the presidential race.

Show Notes

Coming to America

The Golden Child

Mary Matalin and James Carville

Trump is no Republican

how third parties get federal funding

Bernie Sanders and the Democrats

Unity Party

U.N.I.T.Y. by Queen Latifah

Kanye West for President

Michelle Tidball

Marianne Williamson

must the president and VP be from different states?

Dick Cheney

Panem / The Hunger Games

is the Electoral College gerrymandering?

Green Party

Becoming One Nation Party

Jade Simmons

Claudeliah Roze

Maurice Carlos Ruffin + his mama voting

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We respond to listener feedback, interview Tania Nyman who is running for Metro Council in Baton Rouge, and John Paul Bourgeois, who is running for Senate. Brace yourself for all of the Louisiana names you're about to hear!

Show Notes

the difference between civics and politics (per Sen. Ben Sasse)

Tania Nyman

George Mason University

Louisiana State University

Dictionary of Louisiana French

Breakaway school districts / St. George / resegregation

Metro Council (Baton Rouge)

Hi-Y Club

1988 Presidential Election

David Duke

Episode 3

Advice and Consent / Senate and the Supreme Court

John Paul Bourgeois

Masters of Public Health

FEC - campaign finance

Mary Landrieu

Pope John Paul II

2020 US Senate election in Louisiana

Bill Cassidy's record

LSMA in Nachitoches

2008 Presidential Election

Louisiana Tech Ruston, LA

Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me

Hilary Clinton

Pro-life is just anti-abortion

early voting in Louisiana

We dive into the Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court confirmation hearing, talk with Alex Stockton, a former Trump voter, and learn about Louisiana Amendment 5 Kahlida Nicole Lloyd.

Show Notes

Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court confirmation hearing 

ACB's 7th Circuit Court opinions 

Kanter v Barr (right to guns / voting) 

PBS NewsHour ABC hearing 

transracial adoption 

Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearing (again, sorry)

Schoolhouse Rock (again, not sorry)

2004 Presidential election

2008 Presidential election

Dr. Nicki Washington on Twitter

Me Too Movement

socially liberal

ostracism

Alex's travel business

fake Kurt Cobain quote

Democrat or Republican quiz

more options political ideology quiz

Hatfield-McCoy feud

basket of...

We discover what the Post Office means to our country.

Show Notes

USPS 

the Post Office is in the Constitution 

Louisiana contact tracing 

Brent Spiner 

Sam Neill 

Lord Melvyn Bragg 

Sesame Street Post Office Episode  

mail slow downs 

Trixie Minx 

Dolly Parton 

Governor Edwards 

abortion bill 

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 

service industry  

public service 

the military and the Post Office 

WWII and Jewish-American soldiers 

Trixie's grandpa video

Trixie's Post Office video 

sexy Paul Revere 

Senator Bill Cassidy 

Senator John Kennedy 

Minx Burlesque NOLA - Tuesdays 

Minx Burlesque Atlanta - Oct 24 & 31 

fun facts about the Post Office

Emilie Staat Strong Patreon

Show notes

Jefferson's letter to James Madison September 6, 1789 

Article 5 

rules of debates 

pro-choice, pro-life rhetoric 

fetal development 

definition of didactic (I used this word twice, not entirely correctly)

separation of immigrant parents and children 

forced hysterectomies 

Courtney Tierra episode 

"basket of deplorables" 

Caste, Isabel Wilkerson 

second presidential debate, 2016 

Everyday Sexism, Laura Bates 

The Feminist Utopia Project 

abstinence-only education and teen pregnancy 

Satchel Paige 

early Christianity, fish symbol 

traumatic effect of the debate 

white women voted for Trump 

effect of domestic abuse on elections 

Me, Too movement 

Believe Women 

Affirmative Action 

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