Independence Day, COVID Masks, Russian Bounties, Abortion Rights, Religious Freedom

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On this week's show, Mike and Kristin kick things off by discussing some of the recent developments in COVID-19 news and the differences in how governors and the President have handled mask-wearing. They also talk about allegations of Russian bounties on US troops as well as two recent SCOTUS decisions handed down this week, one involving abortion rights (June Medical Services v. Russo) and one involving religious freedom (Espinoza v. Montana), as well as related issues of activist judges and precedent in similar cases. Mike’s Weekly Recommendation 1776 (musical) John Adams: A Life, by John Ferling John Adams (two volumes), by Page Smith Kristin’s Weekly Recommendation Floor is Lava (Netflix) Home Before Dark, by Riley Sager Be part of the discussion on the Politics Guys ‘BipartisanPolitics’ community on Reddit. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the podcast, go to patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Atheists, agnostics, long-haired, weirdos, short-haired weirdos, vand-roth, the government, love, the government,
0:09.5	the government, hug the government, love, the government, hug the government, love.
0:13.2	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:18.8	I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at
0:20.9	North Kentucky University. Joining me today is political and policy analyst, Kristen Mithini.
0:25.5	Hey, Kristen. Hey, Mike. Happy Independence Day. Yeah, happy Independence Day to you. How are you doing
0:30.9	this morning? I'm doing okay. I'm tired. You know, the show was, uh, went on pretty late
0:37.3	last night and, you know, like we were talking about before we got started tired. You know, the show was, went on pretty late last night and, you know,
0:38.9	like we were talking about before we got started that, you know, some people in our neighborhoods
0:42.4	respectively started the fireworks show a little early. Yeah. I, I, for a late night. And I'm tired,
0:48.1	but okay. Oh, I don't, I don't get that. I, you know, I said to my wife, what's going on with some people? It was like 1.30 and someone decided to do
0:56.1	their own impromptu fireworks show. And I thought, I thought, I hope maybe they were, I don't know,
1:01.9	drunk or doing some kind of bizarre sort of, I don't know, gesture of, oh, Mildred, will you
1:08.5	marry me and look at all this wonderful thing. And oh, you know, I don't know, I don't know, something.
1:12.7	Something.
1:13.0	I want there to be some reason aside from somebody just being an inconsiderate jackass,
1:17.5	I guess, you know.
1:18.7	I hope that's the case.
1:20.0	Well, hopefully Mildred got her proposal.
1:21.9	You know, that's what I'd like to think anyway.
1:24.9	But, but yeah, that was crazy. We are recording on Independence Day, which is, I think, a first for us.
1:32.4	And as I was saying to you, it would be weird to not talk about that.
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