It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gophamous

Newsroom filling in for Brian today. On today's show, we'll try to explain

something that a lot of voters may be confused about.

Judges on the ballot, how are they nominated and how to think about your vote for

these names you may never have heard of. Plus we'll talk about the growth in homeschooling which

has exploded in popularity since the pandemic including here in the tri-state area and

lastly this falls many, many, many rainy weekends weren't just a bummer for people who like to spend their Saturday and Sundays outdoors.

They have been financially destructive to Apple Orchards upstate.

An orchard owner from Warwick, New York

will join us and he'll tell us what's left on the trees,

if anything, in case you're up for a late season outing

this weekend. I should note the forecast

looks pretty dry. But first, 10 days ago House Republicans picked a new speaker.

Louisiana's Mike Johnson was elected by the majority to lead the

chamber he was the party's fourth nominee after weeks of struggling to find a candidate.

And it's been an interesting first week and a half on the job.

Johnson has had to contend with dueling efforts to censure Democrat and Republican members.

We're talking Congress members, Rashida Talib of Michigan and Marjorie

Taylor Green of Georgia. Oh and perhaps you've heard a little something about a

group of freshman Republicans from New York who were so fed up with their

colleague George Santos and the newest fraud charges he

faces that they introduced a resolution to expel him from the house. That's a

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