Episode 306: Cheap and effective: Why politicians love Culture War battles
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The Jan. 6 hearings continue, but will they truly have any impact on the upcoming midterms?
Josh Hawley gets into it with a Berkley Law professor - why culture war issues are so popular amongst politicians.
Jeff Maurer (I Might Be Wrong) joins the show to discuss whether Jon Stewart and Tucker Carlson would (or should) run for political office.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is brought to you by Will Harris Dustin Campbell |
| 0:06.0 | Daily Tech News Show Andy Beach |
| 0:09.1 | Nick Wood and Craig And Craig. politics! Hello and welcome to politics, politics for July 13, 2022. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm your substitute host, Andrew Heaton, |
| 0:48.0 | trying to fill in for the big big shoes of our hero Justin Robert Young. And I am delighted to be back hosting this show. |
| 0:57.4 | As long time listeners will recall, I used to host politics politics politics back in the |
| 1:02.2 | 80s when it was still just an AM talk radio |
| 1:04.8 | station back before podcasts were invented. |
| 1:07.0 | But around 87 or so I threw my back out, something fierce, and I got on to some medications, and I kind of spiraled out for a few years, became |
| 1:17.7 | a little unhinged, a little bit more fiery than was really warranted in retrospect. |
| 1:23.8 | For example, I publicly accused Michael Dukakis of murder. |
| 1:28.4 | In fact, this program was briefly called DuCaucus killed D. B. Cooper Talk Radio 580. |
| 1:34.0 | Again, I really regret that whole period of my life, |
| 1:38.0 | but understandably, given my chronic pain condition, |
| 1:41.0 | I turned to medication. |
| 1:42.0 | And I became addicted to recreational antibiotics, |
| 1:48.1 | which was horrible for multiple reasons. First, I went a little crazy. Second, it turns out that recreational |
| 1:55.6 | antibiotics don't really even do anything to help your back, so that was all for nothing. |
| 2:00.5 | Third, apparently there's no such thing as recreational antibiotics and finally |
| 2:05.1 | fourth, if there were, they probably wouldn't be suppository as I had assumed. So that's all |
| 2:11.4 | on me. Anyway, I got fired from hosting this program |
| 2:14.8 | and from the radio station in 1988 |
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