I'm Ashley C. Ford, and I host Into the Mix, a Ben & Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Vox Creative.

For the past few years, I've seen a lot of hand-wringing about Governor Ron DeSantis' agenda to end what he calls woke indoctrination.

But we wanted to know, what does that mean?

And how does this agenda actually affect the people living and working there?

Especially those who have benefited from the diversity, equity, and inclusion programs

that DeSantis' policies would uproot.

Check out the latest mini-series on Into the Mix

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Subscribe now. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 333 of Talking Chop Podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland.

It is holiday time, and we've not talked a little bit on this podcast,

and I've got to join by this person in almost three weeks on this show,

which is an eternity for us.

Scott Coleman is back.

Hello, sir.

Brad, good to be on with you.

Happy holidays to you and all of our listeners out there.

It's been an interesting and quiet last couple of weeks for the Braves and across the league with the lockout. It's a little bizarre to me. The fact that Major League Baseball

removed any instance of the 2021 season from their website,

the minute the clock struck midnight when they locked out was a little odd to me.

And I don't know,

I've been passing the time and getting my baseball fixed by watching

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