Host, Adam Sommer, is joined by Steven Reigns, a poet & author to discuss Steven's latest project "A Quilt For David" - a sincere attempt to tell the full story surrounding David Acer, a dentist in Florida accused of infecting his patients with HIV in the early 1990's, the first allegation coming while David lay dying of his own AIDS related illness. As a gay man at the time, David's illness made him an obvious target for blame. David didn't get a chance to complete his own defense, to tell his own story. Steven's decade of work attempts to do just that.

Amazon link for book: https://www.amazon.com/Quilt-David-Steven-Reigns/dp/0872868818/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=a+quilt+for+david&qid=1633487963&sr=8-1

David Acer - Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Acer

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1. TRUE OR FALSE - The Pandora papers are a big deal

2. Early voting already well under way in Virginia in a tight race

1. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/27/mcauliffe-youngkin-virginia-race-514355

2. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/governor/virginia/

1. JORSH’s Revenge - Alleged smear of Nicole Galloway for auditing Hawley’s AG office

1. https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article254623527.html

2. Galloway investigated Hawley’s AG office during the time of his Senate race, that information was publicly released, Hawley claims he is a client

2. Bi-partisan Infrastructure/BBB Plan

1. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/01/house-democrats-biden-infrastructure-deal-514878

2. Hyde Amendment issue https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/574621-manchin-says-reconciliation-bill-must-include-controversial-hyde-amendment

3. Is the progressive stance the right stance here?

The Culture Wars: COVID-19

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/03/missouri-coronavirus-covid-culture-wars

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Colorado GOP Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's district is getting redder | Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway triggers ire of Sen Josh Hawley | Colorado using COVID Early Childhood funds for Universal Pre-K | Branson Missouri hospital gives personal panic buttons to employees | TX 37th and 38th Congressional Districts take shape | Missouri raises gas tax after 25 years | Minnesota legislature poised to cut pandemic aid checks to some essential workers | Missouri Capitol rioters plead guilty

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Host Adam Sommer is joined by friend and fellow Heartland POD family host, Nicholas Linke (The Delta) to discuss Nicholas' recent contracting and diagnosis of COVID-19, what he's been dealing with, and the realities of his illness v. the unvaccinated.

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Opening Statement - 4min 15 sec

Let’s Have A Chat: Jenna Roberson, Dem. candidate for MO State Senate, 2nd Dist. - 8min 50 sec

Talkin’ Politics -40 min

• True or False: Liz Cheney will run for President, in 2024?

• ACLU of MO steps in on law suit against MO AG

• Arizona “Audit” results are in

• Colorado 3rd Dist. is interesting with Boebert at risk

• An interesting Jan. 6th charge comes out

• Democratic turmoil on capitol hill with $3.5 Trillion plan and bipartisan bill fight

Last Call - 1hr 15 min

• Trumpism moving forward, good for the GOP or nah?

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• NOTES

• ACLU Steps In On Schmitt Vanity Suit

  https://missouriindependent.com/2021/09/24/columbia-schools-ask-judge-to-dismiss-missouri-ag-lawsuit-seeking-to-block-mask-rule/

  Arizona “audit” results are in - for some reason they were not covered on Fox

  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/24/republican-audit-arizona-bigger-lead-biden

  https://missouriindependent.com/2021/09/24/arizona-audit-finds-joe-biden-won-by-more-votes-no-evidence-of-fraud/

  https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/biden-won-arizona-trump-new-audit

  Colorado - Interesting redistricting

  https://coleg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=0b888c6a81cf455ba5f44251e590fc00

  Lauren Boebert - Currently the 3rd district in CO - huge district of Western CO

  • Springs from no where

  • Lots of finance questions

  • Just introduced article of impeachment against Biden, sort of her brand

  https://www.denverpost.com/2021/09/22/lauren-boebert-rent-utilities-campaign-finance/

  An interesting Jan 6th perpetrator charged

  https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/politics/freedomworks-capitol-riot/index.html

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Ohio School Bus Driver Shortage | Education and Climate-focused Branson MO Republican joins primary for Billy Long's open Congressional seat | Missouri Director of Public Health at odds with state GOP leaders on local mask mandates | Arkansas and MO Doctors predict surge of flu and COVID cases | North Carolina court strikes down racist Voter ID law | Missouri utility scales down plans to add solar | Ft Campbell hospital overrun with COVID patients | Kroenke facing huge fines in St Louis-LA Rams fraud case

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Nicholas Linke (host) asks music teacher Chelsea Otten (guest) to share her story about the argument she made at a school board meeting about masks to keep students out of quarantine... and the shaming response she received from her own Missouri representative.

1. Nicholas gives his reaction to how scientific arguments in papers that require citations compare to attacks on the disregarded anonymous.

2. Chelsea Otten tells her story about how being "That Music Teacher" to her own representative made her want to speak out.

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• Opening statement - Pick Your Voters!

• Chat with Marilyn McLeod, President and Nancy Price of Missouri’s League of Women Voters, about redistricting

• Talking Politics with Rachel Parker and Sean Diller

• Parson Admin new Director of Health and Senior Services: Donald G. Kauerauf

• https://missouriindependent.com/2021/09/16/missouris-new-health-director-says-masks-work-as-covid-cases-rise-school-in-session/

• He said words that were not bonkers nuts

• As of yet has not been sued by AG Schmitt

• Biden vaccination & testing policy is fairly popular

• https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1439605560412934151?s=21

• PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA QUESTION

• Redistricting Is Happening

• Clean Missouri - We voted for a new plan that would use a non-partisan demographer, that was then changed again last fall and we are back to a political process

• MO 1, MO 2, MO 5 - All look to be in play here

• https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article253786858.html

• Splitting Communities - “Community Districting”

• Lack of competition across parties leads to extreme candidates

• Missouri has Cori Bush and EmanuelCleaver, hard to imagine either could win in say the MO 3rd or 4th

• Likewise, Jason Smith in the MO 8th would lose in the MO 1st by about 80%, give or take 10%

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Missouri Health Director refutes AG Eric Schmitt, says masks work | Funding for early child care in Kansas | Colorado Gov Jared Polis aggressively pushes boosters | Texas docs advise pregnant women to get vaccinated | COVID-19 has killed 1 in 500 Americans | Mu Variant spreading in U.S. | 10 fatalities in New Orleans from excessive heat during power failure | Anti-Vaxxers are gargling Iodine now

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Nicholas Linke (host) is joined by his father, Tim Linke (guest), to talk about: how pseudo-science solutions to not being vaccinated result in natural selection when the biological forces of survival of the fittest and altruism are expressed within our political system.

First, an opening statement about the heliocentric model of the universe caused a paradigm shift in the image we have of ourselves.

Second, Nicholas discusses with his father how conversations about science and politics lead to interesting overlap when you allow for the grey area and not let labels polarize the conversation.

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