Paper Trail Podcast

Paul and Tootle talk about Donald Trump's latest effort to quell the Republican vote by claiming the November 2020 election was stolen and the mechanisms that led to his failure are still in place (4:54). Then they talk about why a third party has not broken through to challenge the traditional two party system in America (16:28).

Paul is joined by Executive Director of Family Services of Tulare County, Caity Meader to guest host this week's Wednesday episode. Together they talk about Judge Michael Sheltzer's lenient sentencing of a woman who left her toddler in a hot car in June (4:43); How Caity's Purple Party this month helps victims of domestic violence find refuge (19:19); And Self-Help Enterprises cuts the ribbon to their Goshen affordable housing project, also dedicating the community center to a late founding member of Self-Help and larger than life labor organizer (27:51).

Paul and Tootle talk about personal responsibility over using Facebook in light of leaked research from inside the social media behemoth and what it would take to regulate social media writ large in American (3:14); Then they discuss whether politicians should be trusted at all when contradictory rhetoric to win elections rules the day, instead of discussing pivotal issues like the countries debt crisis (22:18).