7.11: Real Quick: Politicians Need Experience

First Name Basis Podcast

Jasmine Bradshaw

How To, Parenting, Education, Kids & Family

5 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Politicians need experience to do their job.

This may fall under the “unpopular opinion” category to some people, but it’s something I feel strongly about and have been thinking about for a while.

You wouldn’t want someone who played a surgeon on TV — but didn’t actually go to medical school — to perform surgery on you. So why would you want someone with no experience or training in politics to be your elected official, especially when we’re talking about a position with as much power as the President of the United States?

I’m sharing my thoughts about this in today’s episode, “Real Quick: Politicians Need Experience,” which is the first in our new Real Quick series!

You know when you’re talking to someone and the conversation is about to wrap up but there’s one more thing you want to say before you part ways so you say, “Real quick, ____”? There are lots of things I want to say or wish I could add that don’t quite fit in an episode or qualify as a full episode on their own, so this Real Quick series is my way of sharing those thoughts with you.

Whenever we have a Real Quick episode, you can plan on getting two mini-episodes that week, one on Tuesday and one on Thursday, so be on the lookout later this week for another small dose of the First Name Basis Podcast!

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Articles, Studies & Podcasts Referenced In The Episode

First Name Basis Podcast, Season 2, Episode 28: “How to Become an Informed Voter”

“How Much Political Experience Does It Take to Be Elected President?” by Maggie Astor and Alicia Parlapiano, The New York Times

Song Credit: “Sleeper” by Steve Adams” and “Dive Down” by VYEN

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0:00.0	You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 7, Episode 11. Real quick, politicians need experience.
0:15.5	Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home.
0:23.8	First-name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your
0:28.8	family and a change maker in your community. Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and
0:34.7	use the answers to create the world we want, a world that reflects our
0:39.3	values of inclusion, compassion, and courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited
0:47.3	to be on this journey with you. Hello, First NameBasis, fam. I am so glad you are here. I hope you had a great Halloween if you celebrate.
0:58.5	And I want to introduce you to a new series that we have here at First Name Basis. They're called Real Quick
1:04.6	because I was thinking about how when you're having a conversation with somebody, you're wrapping up that conversation,
1:11.8	and then there's like one last thing that you want to tell them, and you're like, oh, real quick,
1:15.5	real quick, let me tell you about this thing. And then, you know, you part ways. So there are tons of
1:22.6	things that I want to talk to you all about all the time that like don't really qualify as an entire full blown
1:31.3	episode right so what i was thinking is that i could make these real quick episodes and just be like
1:37.1	real quick i want to tell you this thing but i'll make two of them in one week so anytime we have
1:42.6	a real quick episode, just make sure that
1:45.0	you remember that we'll have another episode on Thursday. So we'll have one real quick mini episode
1:51.2	on Tuesday and then we'll have another real quick mini episode on Thursday. So get ready
1:57.1	because on Thursday I have another episode coming at you. In this episode, we're going to
2:01.3	talk about how politicians need experience. I feel like that's like a really obvious thing,
2:05.5	but I kind of want to break it down a little bit, like real quick. But first, I want to tell you
2:09.9	about a free download that you need to get your hands on if you haven't yet. It's our voting
2:13.9	action plan. So y'all know it is the midterms right now. And I think that you've probably heard how important these midterms are, but they really
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