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.

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Subscribe now. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 389 of the Battery Power podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland, and I'm joined on this evening as I most of the time am by Scott Coleman.

Hello, sir.

How are you?

What's going on, Brad?

We are getting closer and closer to real baseball, about three and a half weeks as of recording this from opening day.

So we are getting closer.

It's nice to see guys out there on the field down in Florida. And before we know it,

opening day will be here. And no shortage of things to talk about as we get closer to opening day.

That is certainly the case. And if you've been a long time listener to the podcast over several

years, we generally do some preview

specific episodes. Part of that is knowing that not everyone, I know this is shocking to everyone

out there, but not everyone this is every podcast. So I know there are fans that might turn off a little

bit in the off season, and I do understand that. But as we wrap up and sort of, you know, get things

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