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The Politics Guys

Ask The Politics Guys: What Do You Guys Read (and Watch)?

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4783 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week’s Ask the Politics Guys question has come up a bunch of times from listeners. How do we keep up with political news, and what do we recommend for listeners trying to get a better big-picture understanding of American politics. (We’ll be posting links to all of the recommendations mentioned in this episode on … Continue reading "Ask The Politics Guys: What Do You Guys Read (and Watch)?"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

Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

0:17.3

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

0:23.5

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist, Jay Carson.

0:30.0

Here's our asked politics guys question for this week, Jay.

0:33.0

You ready?

0:33.4

Okay, fire away.

0:34.3

Okay.

0:35.0

This is one that a number of listeners have asked us in one form or another for a while now,

0:39.9

and so I'm glad we can finally get to it.

0:42.0

Here's a question.

0:43.3

What new sources do you guys follow to keep up with politics?

0:46.6

And related to this is another question people have asked, so I thought we just tackle them both.

0:51.4

Can you recommend any good books, films, documentaries, anything like that for a more

0:55.7

in-depth understanding of American politics?

0:58.0

Where the hell did you get that from?

1:00.2

Sort of the answer is that's a just a question.

1:02.9

Yeah, I think that's, you know, that's a great question because there's certainly so much

1:07.8

out there, but it's the biggest problem that I think a lot of people have certainly that I have is separating the wheat from the chaff you know and I'll for me I

1:17.0

there's a lot of chaff a lot of chaff I'll focus on what I actually use as opposed to things that I

1:22.6

wish I could get to but never do okay so first off I am I almost watch no television I mean I could get to, but never do. Okay. So first off, I almost watch no television.

1:31.0

I mean, I watch a lot of television, but not politics on television.

1:34.2

Just because the information density, it's a lot more efficient to get my information about politics from reading stuff.

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