Conservatives want to burn flags too; plus, the power of a singing POTUS

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

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Summary

Flags have been making a lot of headlines lately, and it's not because today is National Flag Day. The upside down flag that was flown outside of Justice Samuel Alito's house after January 6th is back in the headlines again. Plus the Colorado Republican Party has been making news for their post on X to "burn all the #pride flags this June." Host Brittany Luse is joined by Nick Capodice and Hannah McCarthy - hosts of NHPR's Civics 101 - to get into why both liberals and conservatives get so riled up by a piece of fabric.

Then, in honor of the Tony Awards this weekend, Brittany sits down with critic and playwright Sarah Jae Leiber. They talk about why there are so many presidents in American musical theater, the bizarreness of some of these portrayals and what the real politicians pulling the strings get out of it.

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0:18.0	Hello hello I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's been a minute from NPR, a show about
0:26.5	what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:35.0	This week we're connecting the dots between a mass email, a neighborhood dispute, and political dissent.
0:44.6	I know, I know.
0:46.0	How are all these things connected?
0:48.5	Well, we're going to find out with New Hampshire Public Radio's Nick Caporice and Hannah McCarthy who hosts the Civics 101
0:54.8	podcast. Nick, Hannah, welcome to it's been a minute.
0:58.0	Hi Brittany, so glad to be here.
0:59.6	Delighted to be here. Oh, delighted to have you both. Okay, so all the things I mentioned are
1:04.8	connected by one simple, which has a whole holiday on the calendar this week.
1:11.0	Do you all know what it is?
1:13.6	What is Flag Day?
1:16.2	Ding, ding, ding!
1:17.5	You are right. Friday, June 14th is Flag Day,
1:20.7	which celebrates Congress adopting the American flag in 1777.
1:25.0	But we're not here to celebrate Flag Day.
1:27.5	We're here because flags are making a lot of headlines this week.
1:32.0	Earlier this year, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito of
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