Alec Baldwin & The 5th Amendment, American Greatness

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Mike & Jay open this supporters’ exclusive midweek episode with a discussion of the shooting on the Rust set, why Alec Baldwin waived his right to an attorney, and broader 5th amendment issues including false confessions and why police can lie to suspects and how some states are changing that, at least for minors. In the full episode, the move on to their new midweek series on American greatness, with a look at how Americans feel about the greatness of the United States, what Mike & Jay think constitutes national greatness, and whether the US is the greatest country in the world and, if so, how we can know that. The Politics Guys on Facebook | Twitter Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. Interested in starting your own podcast? Check out RedCircle, home of The Politics Guys. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	atheist agnostics, long-haired, weirdos, short-haired widows, vandal,
0:05.6	Gula.
0:05.8	I'm the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government, love the government,
0:11.9	the government, hug the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:17.7	I'm Michael Baranowski, Professor of Political Science at Northern Kentucky University.
0:22.2	I'm joined today by my conservative counterpart, Cleveland area attorney and defender of freedom,
0:27.0	Jay Carson. Hey, Mike. Hey, Jay. So I am looking forward to talking about some different things,
0:34.0	really, on today's, on this midweek bonus show which as listeners long-time listeners
0:40.2	know we record right after the regular show and so after we're already a little after everybody's
0:47.4	all liquored up a little bit yeah exactly no that's not actually that's not true no we always
0:51.4	not at all it's sort of stone cold sober on these that's right I save No, we always, I've... Not at all. It's sort of stone cold, sober on these shows.
0:54.9	That's right.
0:55.3	I save the gummies until later.
0:56.6	Anyway, so last week, prosecutors in Santa Fe announced that they'd be charging actor
1:04.3	Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter into killing a cinematographer, Hila Hutchins,
1:10.1	on the set of that low-budget
1:11.4	Western Rust that Baldwin was filming there in October of 2021.
1:16.3	And at this point, you might say, wait a second, that I stumble into some sort of a crime
1:20.0	podcast.
1:20.8	And no, that's not us, certainly.
1:23.5	But there's an important aspect of this case that I think very much is in our wheelhouse,
1:31.6	so to speak.
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