Counties, what a week we are in for.

We're bringing you a bit of a distraction in the form of a recap episode. We re-watched The Office's season 5 two-episode premier, Weight Loss (Part 1) and Weight Loss (Part 2). Joining us for this episode is Leah Apothaker, a dear friend of our's and an Office historian, of sorts.

What a treat!

Links:
- They Wish They Were Us

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Counties! It's almost here. Election 2020.

In this episode, we share our voting plans -- What's your voting plan?

Welcome to Counter Programming with Shira & Arielle. On this podcast, we bring you stories and information on topics with the word "count" or "counter" in the title. Last week, we reviewed the 2002 film The Count of Monte Cristo. 

This week we're... COUNTing Down to the Election AKA giving you tips on how to stay involved in the last few days before the most important election of our lifetimes. 

Here's what you can do:

1. Donate to these candidates (click on the links)

• Gary Peters (Michigan) 
• MJ Hegar (Texas) 
• Al Gross (Alaska) 
• Jon Ossoff (Georgia) 
• Raphael Warnock (Georgia) 
• Barbara Bollier (Kansas) 
• Cal Cunningham (North Carolina) 
• Doug Jones (Alabama) 
• Theresa Greenfield (Iowa) 
• Steve Bullock (Montana) 

2. Relational Organizing: when you chat with friends and family on the phone or in person, ask them about their voting plans!

3. Sign up for call / text banking at mobilize.us/joebiden. The Counter Programming Challenge: sign up for at least one time slot before the election!

4. Mission Arizona - opportunities for law students and lawyers

5. Send pizza to long lines! polls.pizza for more info and to send a pie!

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Hey Counties! Welcome to the show.

This week we review the 2002 version of film The Count of Monte Cristo.

Warning: this episode is full of spoilers so we recommend you watch the film on Amazon first.

If you're as obsessed as we are with the cast, checkout IMDB.

We'll be back next week with some more VOTE Counter Programming content. But in the meantime, make sure to check back in our episode archive -- may we recommend our interview with Jesse Cerrotti about why Local Elections Count?!

Counties, we need your voices!
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Hey, Counties! Welcome to the show.

This week, we're about local elections, because local election COUNT! Each week on the show, we focus on a different topic with the word "count" or "counter" in the title.

This week, we chat with Jesse Cerrotti, who ran for city council in Astoria, Queens. He recently ended his bid for election. Learn about his story through our chat! 

LINKS:

• Rank choice voting
• Don't Laugh at Me song
• Be the One song
• Defend the Black vote
• @jessecerrotti 

Refer your friends to our podcast!

Make sure to check back in our episode archive -- may we recommend our interview with Aryeh Nussbaum-Cohen, a counter tenor?!

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Hey, Counties! Welcome to the show.

This week, we're chatting counting political money, AKA political donations! Each week on the show, we focus on a different topic with the word "count" or "counter" in the title.

Make sure to check back in our episode archive -- may we recommend our interview with Aryeh Nussbaum-Cohen, a counter tenor?!

Sources in this episode:
- Metrocosm's cool graphics
- NPR's money tracker
- 538 on how money affects elections
- Investopedia on what candidates do with funds post campaign
- Common Cause

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Arms & Influence is a four-player political strategy card game where you’ll use technology, policy, military, and diplomacy to advance your society to victory. Thank you to our episode sponsor, Arms & Influence. Use code "count" at checkout!

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Hey, Counties! ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE? WHERE'S YOUR POLLING PLACE? ARE YOU DRIVING ANYONE TO THE POLLING PLACE? Share your voting plan with us!

This week, we are re-airing an interview that we put out in June. We chatted with D'Vera Cohn of the Pew Research Center about the census, AKA people counters!

Each episode of Counter Programming will focus on a "counter" of some sort. Check back in our episode archives for hours and hours of counter programming content.

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D’Vera Cohn is a senior writer and editor at Pew Research Center. She studies and writes about demographics in the United States, especially the census. Cohn was a Washington Post reporter for 21 years, mainly writing about demographics, and was the newspaper’s lead reporter for the 2000 census. Before joining Pew Research Center, she served as a consultant and freelance writer for the Brookings Institution and Population Reference Bureau. Cohn is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and is a former Nieman Fellow. She is an author of studies on the marriage and birth rates in the United States, migration between the U.S. and Mexico, and U.S. population projections. Cohn manages Pew Research Center’s @allthingscensus Twitter account. She has spoken at national journalism conferences about how reporters can make use of demographic data in stories and often talks about the Center’s findings in print and broadcast media.

Here's the article we referenced in the interview: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/17/its-clear-where-college-students-are-counted-in-the-2020-census-but-not-others-who-moved-due-to-covid-19/

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Hey Counties,

How goes it? We're tired. This week, we gave ourselves a little break.

Please enjoy some back and forth voice memo clips between Shira and Arielle. They chat about the Jewish New Year, the death of RBG, how you can participate in our podcast, and more. Plus: some special audio from a Ruth Bader Ginsburg vigil that took place in downtown Portland, ME.

As always, get in touch with us with questions, comments, and lots of love: [email protected] and @counterprogramminpod on Instagram. 

Thank you to you, Counties! For being you! And for listening week after week. We love ya!

Hey, Counties! ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE? WHERE'S YOUR POLLING PLACE? ARE YOU DRIVING ANYONE TO THE POLLING PLACE? Share your voting plan with us!

This week, we discuss how votes are COUNTED! Wooo! Yay, civic engagement.

Each episode of Counter Programming will focus on a "counter" of some sort. Check back in our episode archives for hours and hours of counter programming content.

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Here are our episode research sources:
Thought Co.
USA.gov

According to Ellen Weintraub, commissioner of the Federal Election Commission, “There is simply no basis for the conspiracy theory that voting by mail causes fraud.” 

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Listen to Pray for Us Podcast:
Season 2 of Pray for Us comes out this Friday- just in time for Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year! So you have 2 days to binge season 1. We highly recommend starting with “Chill Jews,” the interview with Eliot Glazer, and “Pray for Pay,” their interview with Rabbi Alex Kress, a millennial rabbi. Happy listening, and HNY to our Jewish counties! 

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Counties! Here we go.

Each week at Counter Programming with Shira & Arielle, we bring you stories on anything "count" or "counter" related. We are your COVID-19 distraction-cast, offering you counter programming to all of the bad news hubbub -- get it... counter programming!?

This week: It's The Great County Community Counting Episode. Usually, Shira & Arielle focus on a specific topic that contains the word "count" or "counter." Today's episode is a joint effort. We asked and we received! Counter Programming listeners from around the world (we call 'em Counties) sent in their voice clips -- stories, tales, thoughts on anything to do with counting. We had a blast listening and we can't wait for you to tune in.

Thank you to everyone who sent in a story:
Matt
Susie
Delaney
Remy
Miriam
Dylan
Bhavneet
Zari
Jake
Eva

If you are wondering where your invite was to send in a story -- that means you missed our Instagram posts inviting you to do so! Make sure to follow us there at counterprogrammingpod.

This week's episode intro came to us from Remy! Thanks, Remy. You can be famous like Remy. Just sent a voice clip to us telling us your name and where you're listening to the show from. Then, email it to us at [email protected].

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Thank you to Daniel Tureck, our engineer. Thank you to Caio Slikta, our logo designer. Our music is called Tennessee Hayride and it’s by Jason Shaw.

Hey, Counties!

This week, we discuss year counters, AKA calendars! 

Each episode of Counter Programming will focus on a "counter" of some sort. Check back in our episode archives for hours and hours of counter programming content.

Thank you to Leah for lending your voice for the intro! You can do the same. Record a voice note saying, "Hi, i'm (your name), and you're listening to Counter Programming with Shira & Arielle." Then send it to us: [email protected]. 

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A calendar - is a system for fixing the beginning, length, and divisions of the civil year and arranging days and longer divisions of time (such as weeks and months) in a definite order. (Thanks, Merriam Webster).

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, by the 40s BCE the Roman civic calendar was three months ahead of the solar calendar. Caesar, advised by the astronomer Sosigenes, introduced the Egyptian solar calendar, which claimed that the length of the solar year was 365 1/4 days. Like our calendar, the year was divided into 12 months, which had either 30 or 31 days except February, which contained 28 days in common years and 29 in every fourth year/leap year. Fun fact: Leap years repeated February 23; there was no February 29 in the Julian calendar. 

Here are the most common birthdays in the world.

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