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Colorado State Sen Chris Hansen wants to triple property taxes on Airbnbs | Colorado Governor Jared Polis voting against Dem party line on ballot initiative

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5 min 20 sec - Opening Statement - The Nature of Progress

10 min 15 sec - Talkin' Politics

1. Yeah, NO…

1. Facebook Failing and Trump starts a media company

2. Zuck was hands on with Cambridge Analytica

3. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/business/media/trump-spac-social-media-venture.html

4. New names for Facebook?

1. The Boomer Meme Machine

2. The Metaverse

3. Just straight up “The Matrix”

1. True or False: Bannon In Contempt

1. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/577894-the-9-republicans-who-voted-to-hold-bannon-in-contempt-of-congress

1. Filibuster Parfait Strikes Again - Biden entertains changes during his “Town Hall” on CNN

1. filibuster on voting rights

2. Nuke it, or at least make it speaking style

3. https://trib.al/eNyDOI6

1. Joe Manchin The Type Of Dude that…

1. Adam Takes a Reluctant Victory Lap on Bipartisan plan v BBB plan

2. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/senator-joe-manchin-democratic-party-exit-plan-biden-infrastructure-deal-exclusive/

3. Manchin says he’s not leaving

1. (50 Min) CHARTER SCHOOLS LOSE SPONSOR - The school choice folks continue to push this fake narrative

1. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/arch-community-charter-school-in-north-st-louis-loses-its-sponsor-could-close/article_6763928c-0181-56bb-a0bb-a2706335757e.html?recip_id=5763890#tncms-source=login

2. New “study” from Show Me Institute

1. https://moschoolrankings.org/

2. Advancing liberty with responsibility by promoting market solutions for Missouri public policy.

3. https://ballotpedia.org/Show-Me_Institute#:~:text=The%20Show%2DMe%20Institute%20(SMI,state%20and%20local%20policy%20issues.%22

1. (1 hr 11 min) - Missouri Democrats raising major questions on Lucas Kunce

1. https://twitter.com/LynzforCongress/status/1452124251847335939?s=20

2. https://twitter.com/HafnerMO/status/1451676116113055751?s=20

3. https://missouriindependent.com/2021/10/19/top-fundraiser-in-missouri-senate-race-last-quarter-was-democrat-lucas-kunce/

4. While the attention in the race for MO's U.S. Senate seat has been on the GOP primary, Democrat @LucasKunceMO quietly out-raised the field last quarter.

5. But he still trails in cash on hand, with Rep. @VickyHartzlerMO w/ $1.6M.

1. Obama stumps in VA - polling shows folks on the left are not as excited as folks on the right - Dems waiting for perfection? The perfect bill?

1. Dems in love - Shepherd mentioned this last week - Dems and folks on the left need to think like food - is a perfectly cooked steak for a meat eater perfect? Yeah, but ya know what, sometimes I gotta eat a bowl of soup because that’s what works for that day and the goal is to eat food, which either way I’ve accomplished

2. https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1452049583593246728?s=21

Final thoughts:

Adam - Colin Powell legacy

Sean - Local elections, get out there!

Rachel - Tragic death on film set

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EVs and Fleet Sustainability in Wisconsin | First Responders in Austin TX worry about impact of Prop A | Iowa State Auditor slams privatized Medicaid contractors | Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex is only making things worse | AZ Senator Kyrsten Sinema bleeding supporters by not backing Biden | TX Universities expand free tuition programs | Ohio Senate passes one of the dumber gun rights bills in the country | Missourians can finally apply for Medicaid | Trump Social poops the bed

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Adam Sommer is joined by former law enforcement officer turned reformer, professor, investigator, and author - Betty Jane Frizzell - to discuss her recent book "If You Can't Quit Cryin' You Can't Come Here No More." The book follows Betty's experience of getting the phone call that her sister, Vicky, is in prison for murdering her husband, Chris Isaac, in 800 person Puxico, MO. Betty's book recalls a childhood of abuse, poverty, and violence stretching generations and the failures of every part of the system leading to this tragedy.

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Patreon Info - 1 min 30 sec

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Opening Statement - 8 mins.

Let's Have a Chat w/ Brianna Lennon - 15 min

Talkin' Politics - 43 min 30 sec

1. 3 min - TRUE OR FALSE: 5.9% increase in Social Security amount will help Biden with senior voters

1. Joe

2. Rachel

3. Sean

2. 4 min — Americans Quit Jobs After Unemployment Goes Down

1. A record number of Americans are quitting their jobshttps://www.cnn.com/2021/10/12/economy/jolts-job-openings/index.html

3. 5 min — Nothing strikes like a Deere … John Deere Strike of 10,000 workers

1. Offer of a 6% raise, so same as SSI payments

4. 5 min — Gov. Parson is a hack… sorry catches a hacker

1. The goldfish gov jumped out of the bowl and flopped onto the keyboard and tweets out some duuuuumb shit

5. 8 min — 2020 Redistricting, hits for 2022 cycle

1. Redistricting Marches on - so far 538 tracking has the new maps with a +2 for Democrats in the House, but it is super early still

2. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/?cid=rrpromo

3. Different states have different date requirements

1. MO map due by Feb 22, 2022

2. KS meanwhile, not until Jun 1, 2022

3. Then Colorado where Sean is due by Dec. 15, 2021

4. Illinois not until March 7th, 2022

1. Models are out heavily gerrymandered for Dems

2. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/17/illinois-democrats-redistricting-map-516135

5. Alaska, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota (SO DAK!) all only have the one Rep, so their maps are obviously DONE - Nebraska's is pretty easy and is done, Indiana is similar, and is done and a handful of others on the coasts.

4. What are you looking at heading into the year leading up

5. What are your expectations overall?

6. 10 min — Trump 2024 has begun

1. Is he the GOP presumptive nom? https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/576584-trump-holds-35-point-leads-over-desantis-pence-in-new-poll

2. Head to head in 2024 already out

1. https://www.newsweek.com/could-donald-trump-beat-joe-biden-kamala-harris-2024-his-chances-against-democrats-1637675

3. Are Biden’s numbers the sign of something more systemic? -4 points in 60 days

1. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/?ex_cid=rrpromo

1. Presidential approval has been on a downward trajectory for many years, W. Bush had the spike with 9/11 but if we look at the rest of his time, include HW Bush, Reagan, Clinton, Obama, Trump… is it possible that the American people are just really, really hard on the President now?

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FBI to prosecute people threatening teachers and school board members | North Carolina poultry CAFOs produce outrageous amounts of chicken shit | Biden and Democrats legislative majorities may depend on factory towns | Donald Trump continues to assert dominance over Republican Party | Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot tells anti-vax FOP head to bring it on | Huge new solar array to power new Pueblo, CO steel mill | Missouri Gov Mike Parson is absolutely clueless

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Nicholas (host) goes back to school and shares his return to school after quarantine and being diagnosed with COVID.

Initial thoughts from his Quarantine time on the couch:
- Privatization of public schools produces isolation-like quarantine of students from exposure to ideas and diversity
- Returning to the classroom reveals that school has changed due to the pandemic beyond the "good old days" of lecture and obvious solutions

DNA Cookbook:
Nicholas gives a short "science cocktail party" lecture story about his grandmother's favorite cake compared to how proteins like antibodies are made from mRNA vaccines.

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Heartland POD for October 11, 2021

Opening Statement - 1 min 49 sec

Let's Have a Chat - 5 min 40 sec

Talkin' Politics - 41 min 30 sec

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Kevin Smith & Sean Diller bring you some of the biggest news stories from and about the heartland.

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