Nancy Rommelmann and Michael Totten on Portland's Descent Into Violence—And Why They Finally Decided to Flee

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Society & Culture, Politics, News, Science, News Commentary

4.6 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks to two ex-Portlanders about how the COVID-19 pandemic and a year of violent protests turned their once beloved city into a fractured, downwardly mobile arena for America's culture war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
0:08.0	Colette is where free thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.
0:15.0	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, associate editor Toby Young,
0:20.0	and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay.
0:22.0	You can support our podcast by visiting... Toby Young and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay.
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0:25.8	forward slash Quilett and becoming a monthly patron.
0:29.1	By becoming a monthly patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter. I guess I do have a question about the
0:36.0	chicken if you could just tell us a little bit more about it. The chicken is a
0:39.2	heritage breed, woodland-raised chicken that's been fed a diet of sheep's milk, soy and hazelnuts.
0:46.6	Okay this is local?
0:48.6	Yes, absolutely.
0:49.6	I'm going to ask you just one more time and it's local.
0:52.2	It is. Hazelnut, it's local. It is.
0:52.6	Hazelnut, these are local.
0:54.1	How big is the area where the chickens are able to roam free?
0:57.4	I'm sorry to interrupt. I have it exactly the same question.
1:00.0	Four acres.
1:01.1	Welcome to the Colette Podcast.
1:04.0	I'm Jonathan Kay.
1:06.0	What we just heard is a segment of the famous
1:08.0	restaurant sketch from the TV comedy series Portlandia, which ran from 2011 to 2018. And for many of us outside
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