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- S3 E12: Alyia Gaskins for Mayor!
ARE YOU READY TO GET MAYORAL?! OF COURSE YOU ARE! Alyia Gaskins is up first! We've had two mayoral eps in the can since April, but we've been holdin' 'em back, hoping to complete the trifecta for you! But it's gettin' late in the cycle, so we're giving the people what they want—just in time to get smart before Election Day! Listen up, and tell all your friends!
- The Quinta Brunson Program!
- AG is a Gemini! What does that mean?
- Nugget & Fang
- DRP after Music Together!
- Bathroom decor? No thanks, function over form for this lady!
- Alexandria's Birthday AGAIIIINNNN.
- But finally, someone said Baby Got Back!
- Shirley Chisholm—"took nothing from no one!"
- What's YOUR Meyers Briggs type?
- As promised, Anh: ENFP, Sandy: ENTP, Kristen: INFJ, Marta: no idea, but we're betting it starts
with an E!, Rashmi: ISFP, Joy: ESFP- Fig 28, page 101: how our climate plans and programs work together
- If Alyia and Sarah both win, they're getting TANDEM BIKE!
- Alexandria eviction courts are packed, y'all. Not good.
- What keeps up at night: Dying too soon: New report reveals deep and persistent health disparities in Northern Virginia
- Binders full of budget!
- Add: funding for construction of Cora Kelly + George Mason, and $4 million for teacher compensation
- Add: expanding senior tax relief (with McPike)
- Add: Youth, Safety + Resilience Effort, with youth ambassadors!
- Alyia's Shemar Moore-heavy 2021 LibSoc ep!
- alyiaforalexandria.com
44 min - S3 E11: Jacinta Greene for City Council!In the LAST CITY COUNCIL EP OF 2024, Jacinta—Miss Greene if you're nasty—reveals shocking information about her unabashed pizza preferences. She repays our acceptance by not leaving the chat as we...have a little fun...with ACPS's little rebranding experiment a few months ago! LISTEN UP, Social Butterflies! You're almost done!ACPS's Maritime Christmas Police BadgeVisit Alexandria's Minimalist Peepee SunsetDomino's?????????????? Pineapple, mushroom, and pepperoni?! Omg this is too much! Cover your ears, Diane!Jacinta's bathroom decor of choice: Olden DaysWaterfront Park Art!Sweet Caroline karaoke! And this one, obv.Say hi to Daddy Greene!Shirley Chisholm: us, too!ECCAP figure of choice: 17! Demographics affected most by floodingWhat keeps up at night: Dying too soon: New report reveals deep and persistent health disparities in Northern VirginiaDifference between equity and equalityThe kids are calling ACHS "The City"!!! We like!JacintaGreene.com39 min
- S3 E10: John Chapman for City Council!In this ep, Anh does her best to make this our first NSFW interview—and by that we mean that it's probably fiiiiine for younger listeners in that they'll learn how to pronounce 'clitoris' correctly. Poor Night Mayor!He's deep in the comments of the washingtondc subreddit, BUT WHAT NON-CONSPIRACY THEORY ISN'T?Restaraunts should put bathroom pics on their websites!The World’s Greatest Cheese Pizza Is in DC? Apparently So. (It's Andy's)John likes the "AUTO"Did Theismann's get new bathrooms?Are breakup dogs a thing?Rorschach test: is it a donut with a pea? Eggs in space? Clitoris? Art is subjective.All about Cancers!City Birthday Party! (July 13th, y'all!)Glory Days for dinner!Your next read is...Black Futures!Emotional surprise IG videos ftw!Lesbian sheep shearing is the content you need.You've gotta see The Night Cap: check instaAd Hoc Stormwater Utility and Mitigation CommitteeGermany has rolling gardens for moving shade around in public spaces! (scroll down halfway!)Germany has tech that pulls CO2 out of the air in public spaces!ECCAP figure of choice: FEMA flood zone map!chapman4council.com46 min
- S3 E9: Jimmy Lewis for City Council!
Y'all, in this episode Jimmy Lewis and the LibSoc team pop a can of ice cold, bubbly facts having to do with code we identify by number, salacious gossip about aluminum can production, and other nerdy, super hot, but totally SFW topics. You won't want to miss this one!
- Nerdiest nerd fact: 76% of aluminum ever manufactured is still in use today
- Canned wine is cool.
- Best Pizza in ALX is Benny's bc it's GIANT
- Bathroom aesthetic: Jula's! (Jimmy and his mom get it!)
- If you didn't want to be Indiana Jones, were you even a Millennial?
- Friends in Low Places is quality 1990s karaoke. (Not you, Chris Gaines.)
- That one Waterfront installation that could hear you!
- Boat Parade at Christmas
- Joss's Buffy is an acceptable answer
- Barbara Lee worked for Shirley Chisholm and used to hang out w Black Panthers
- Is Rent Trap a thing? It's Googleable, but there's no Wikipedia entry, so we cry Mandela Effect.
- We have old pipes.
- ECCAP Pg 9 of the , tracking greenhouse gas
- ECCAP Figures 17 and 22 show the effects of flooding and heat on most vulnerable communities
- JamesLewisVA.com
35 min - S3 E8: Canek Aguirre for City Council!
In this episode, we are pretty sure Canek opens a beer with a club of some kind, it turns out he's running against Joe Biden, City Council loses count of our birthday cupcakes, and it's inexplicably time to start the Census all over again—OR ARE WE HAVING AN ANXIETY DREAM?! Are any of us getting enough sleep? Only one way to find out: listen to the most chill episode ever!
- Having a bottle opener/club is so
normal, it's ungoogleable.- Canek says La Casa (in Foxchase) has the best pizza...
- We're too busy for everything but Rick and Morty, too.
- No pets, not even dust bunnies
- Learn about Edward Roybal!
- Write a letter of complaint to Canek's mean childhood science teacher
- TWU mural, the one on Edsall, and DASH Bus Welcome to the West End wrap
- Scooter - most fun!
- We are reclaiming Canek's time from Lulu
- Cupcakes at ALX birthday party
- For the record, elevator pitch was almost exactly 30 seconds!
- Hazel is a "BAD MAMAJAMA"! We agree!
- Nerd fun fact: Hazel was named after Hazel Johnson
- Page 92 - heat map and vulnerability indexes
- Let's all go to the Puebla Historic District in Mexico!
- The Vulcan site , not to be confused with a salute of the same name. (LLAP)
- What keeps up at night: Dying too soon: New report reveals deep and persistent health disparities in Northern Virginia
- ALX had 100% participation in the 2020 Census!
- Democrats love librarians—we book hoarders/dragons approve!
- CanekforCouncil.com
34 min - S3 E7: Kevin Harris for City Council!
Prayin' man Kevin Harris forgives our dog poop opening, but has no room for pets (who don't even pay rent) himself, gets the BFF question right, tells us about a great youth training program, aaaand gives us an excuse to put a Simpson's monorail gif in the show notes! We barely even talked basketball—this must be serious! Listen!
- It counts as local if it's from Preeti's 7-Eleven
- Del Ray Pizza
- Butterfly Effect mural wins again!
- Sponsor us, Jeni's!
- Most relatable karaoke choice
- Philly Cheesesteak is Philadelphia Cheesesteak Factory
- Alexandria Birthday Celebration's gonna be BIG this year!
- Shogun, let's go!
- Check out Howard County Eco Works!
- Big fan of a tree, that Kevin Harris!
- Supreme Court overturned Affirmative Action—BIDEN OR BUST IN 2024!
- ALX was sued by a White defense contractor for "discrimination"
- What keeps up at night: Dying too soon: New report reveals deep and persistent health disparities in Northern Virginia
- My Hoop Life!
- $175k x 30 = $5,250,000 We're just proud that we did the maths, so look at it.
- Did someone say MONORAIL?!
- https://www.voteforkevinharris.com/
31 min - S3 E6: Abdel Elnoubi for City Council!
Listen in as we chat with Metro engineer, SB member, and double Alexandrian, Abdel Elnoubi and (from afar) his—are you ready?—BUNNY! The important thing for you to know about this episode is that Diane may have some feelings about Abdel's choice of pizza joint—WHO CAN KNOW?!
- Shirley Temples are coming back! Sometimes with *ginger ale*!
- Catch up on House of Cards
- Lost Dog Pizza
- Small little white bunny called Fuzzy
- Butterfly mural—shout out to EBP!
- We forgot to ask this WMATA engineer if time travel is possible
- Get this man to karaoke!
- Abdel admires Bernie Sanders
- ACPS's MLK Arts Display!
- More 100-year storms now!
- ECCAP Figure: Figure 25, heat disparities, along with figures 24 and 26, which show climate inequities!
- Overcrowding in our schools, esp on West End
- What keeps up at night: Dying too soon: New report reveals deep and persistent health disparities in Northern Virginia
- Info on that biiiiiig budget increase School Board sent to Council
- Rashmi QUIT engineering to enter what we're sure is a more lucrative profession, art.
35 min - S3 E5: Charlotte Scherer for City Council!
This episode has it all: detailed pizza descriptors, middle school "lingo" that'll make your kid pretend they don't know you on the street, JewBu philosophy, and a lottttt of nerd talk. Give Charlotte-branded Charlotte Scherer a listen now!
- Middle school boy translator, @mr_phlindsay_sped
- Monterey's Pizza
- Sing along with Charlotte!: Walk of Life by Dire Straits
- King Street Cats!
- Poetry enters the chat: WH Auden
- Appalachian Trail: the Rollercoaster!
- Ed note: for the record, Sandy was a baby when the mean cowboy from City Clickers did Ripley's Believe It of Not
- ALX has Gold LEED certification
- More EV stations
- ECCAP Figure: Heat Index
- Ron "The Worst" DeSantis ruined New College
- Hitchhiker's Guide reference incoming!
- Sanse and Naja
- What keeps up at night: Dying too soon: New report reveals deep and persistent health disparities in Northern Virginia
- Nope! Not the only renter running for Council! But we get the point!
- CharlotteforALX.com
41 min - S3 E4: Jonathan Huskey for City Council!
Anti-arena candidate Jonathan Huskey's comin' in HOTTT! Listen as this changiest change agent gives a Diane-approved pizza answer, demonstrates empathy for opponent Jesse O'Connell's hair, shows great flexibility toward root vegetables, and shows off his Labor chops!
- You're gonna wanna listen to Ep 0: Arena Explainer with WaPo's Teo Armus to get ready for this one!
- Where is Warwick Village?
- Stracci Pizza Wins the 2023 NoVA Wars Pizza Madness
- Jets Pizza (Diane approves!)
- Bathroom question gets the answer it deserves...
- Someone send us a Josephine bathroom selfie!
- DC Animal Shelter where Butter's from!
- I Think You Should Leave
- Become a National Park Ranger
- Two Degrees by Alan Gratz
- Figure ES-2. Relative summer land surface temperatures in Alexandria
- What keeps up at night: Dying too soon: New report reveals deep and persistent health disparities in Northern Virginia
- Was Council really in Richmond lobbying for the arena? Huskey contradicts our Arena Explainer...check it out!
- Zoning for Housing passed unanimously, but Jackson and Chapman voted to consider single family zoning separately, which failed 5-2.
- www.huskeyforcouncil.com
42 min - S3 E3: Kirk McPike for City Council!
Fan of the show, Kirk McPike, validates our existence, solidifies his sci-fi chops with a Dune deep cut, and is the first one to make clear to us that our bathroom question is...weird. FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAM!
- Last season, on Liberally Social...
- Frank Pepe's!
- Robinson's Landing has a public bathroom on the waterfront, but that's not exactly what Marta's looking for.
- Asteroid hits waterfront!
- Kirk correctly pluralizes poets laureate
- Ice Ice Baby
- Leo McGarry is the GOAT
- Congressman Takano!
- mmm...Los Tios.
- mmm...Spice Kraft.
- 58 boards and commissions! Get on one!
- Stormwater Advisory Committee
- We're planting more trees than our neighbors! 275 more this year!
- What's the gift for 275-iversary?
- Induction stoves, Marta approved!
- What keeps up at night: Dying too soon: New report reveals deep and persistent health disparities in Northern Virginia
- MORE PIE! Everyone loves pie!
- ALX has an AAA credit rating!
- KirkMcPike.com
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About Liberally Social
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The Democratic Social Club of ALX proudly presents: Liberally Social—a podcast about omg who are all FOURTEEN candidates on our local Primary ballot and which ones am I voting for? We get it, and…
we're here to help. Join us as we take each candidate, not out, but IN, for drinks to discuss what on earth is happening.