From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, October 20th.

All right, who wants to talk about your No Kings Day? We'll start the week with the question,

what were you rallying for on

no Kings Day? And did you carry or see a favorite sign on No Kings Day? And I want to give you a

chance to try to refute, and you'll hear why I use that word, a chance to refute. The Speaker of the

House, Mike Johnson, because this soundbite was played on national

media over and over again, he said it on Friday the day before No King's Day, to try to pre-spin

the meaning of the rallies before they happened.

Here it is.

Tomorrow the Democrat leaders are going to join for a big party out on the National

Mall.

They're going to descend on our capital for their much anticipated so-called No King's Rally. We refer to it by its more

accurate description, the Hate America Rally. And I'm not sure how anybody can refute that.

Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday, he doesn't know how anyone can refute that a No Kings Day rally

would be a hate America rally. So the non-mic Johnson and non-rallying world will get to decide for

themselves, right? What they think it was. But Speaker Johnson had his say, claiming his take was irrefutable in a democracy, and it's still this much of a democracy, right?

Now you get your say if you were at a No Kings Day rally and were a No Kings Day participant.

So did you participate in No Kings Day because you hate America, as Mike Johnson

posits? What were you rallying to say on No Kings Day, if not that you hate America? And did you

carry or see a favorite sign on No King's Day that you would like to repeat out loud here on the radio while we're still

aloud. Now, as your calls and texts are coming in, our newsroom had reporters out covering

No Kings Day in our area. One person they spoke to was a guy named David Wildman who said he was

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