1412 Emily Atkin + News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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šļø 7 August 2025
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My conversation with Emily starts at 32 minutes and you can watch it on YouTube.com/StandUpwithPete
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| 0:00.0 | You know that Republicans in the state, Republicans out of the state, look at what you guys are doing and thinking you're running away from the fight. You're running away from your jobs by not being in Austin today. |
| 0:11.0 | Yeah, no. Abandoning your job is going to Cancun in the middle of a deadly freeze, right? Abandoning your job is cutting health care when people need access. Abandoning your job is cutting public education when we already have one of the worst education systems in the nation. |
| 0:26.4 | What we are doing is the fundamental protection by our founding fathers in the Texas Constitution. |
| 0:32.3 | When Donald Trump called Georgia Republicans and said, I just need you to find me 11,000 votes, They said, no, sir. That's a step too far. But when he called Texas Republicans and said, I need you to feel me five seats, they said, just July work for you? Well, it doesn't work for us as Texas Democrats. Who we! Texas State Rep and Johnson. Thanks to Kim Nyborg for sending that one. |
| 0:54.2 | So good, I thought I'd started us off with it. |
| 0:56.1 | Hit it, John Carroll. |
| 0:57.9 | Stand up. |
| 0:59.6 | Hello, my friends. |
| 1:00.7 | Welcome to today's episode of Stand Up, where I will be welcoming Heated. |
| 1:05.1 | Dot World Climate Journalist, Emily Atkin, joins me today. |
| 1:09.6 | Yesterday, you heard her conversation with Bill McKibben, and today I've got her herself. |
| 1:15.4 | Looking forward to sharing that with you. |
| 1:16.9 | It's coming up at about 31 minutes into today's show. |
| 1:20.4 | But I've got to get to your headlines and clips. |
| 1:22.7 | Just want to remind you, it is Thursday. |
| 1:24.7 | I will be hosting another amazing hangout tonight at 8 East. If you're a paid |
| 1:29.5 | subscriber, you'll be getting a link emailed to you or in today's show posts. Sorry, I didn't |
| 1:35.8 | include the audio in the last two days post. The audio is posted in several different places as soon as I |
| 1:42.8 | click post, but then when you go over to the Patreon |
| 1:45.7 | subscribers, a different post that I have to do. And I forgot to include the audio. Sorry, Brent, |
| 1:52.2 | sorry, Carl, and anybody else who listens on the Patreon in the Patreon app. I don't really |
| 1:57.3 | care how you listen. I'm so happy to have you listening. The best way to chart the numbers is on Apple or Spotify or YouTube or any other podcast |
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