Political feuds don't take vacations

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🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Amory are, sadly, not the type of people who truly "unplug" when they go on vacation, but this week's story is proof that those people do, in fact, exist!

It comes to us from "Shared State" — a podcast from the Montana Free Press, Montana Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio — and it's the story of a couple who returned from a vacation off the grid to discover that they were entangled in a viral political feud with one of Fox News' most controversial commentators.

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0:00.0	WBWR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things
0:06.1	that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to let
0:11.5	mysteries go unsolved.
0:13.7	Don't miss season 3.
0:15.1	Out now.
0:16.1	Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:20.6	WBWR podcasts.
0:22.8	Boston.
0:29.2	You know those people who go on vacation and they say, you know, I'm going to unplug,
0:34.5	I'm going to be off the grid, and then they actually do it.
0:38.2	No, I have never met one of those people, I'm not one of those people, I do not know
0:42.6	those people.
0:44.5	But I do believe they exist and I aspire to be one.
0:47.0	I do too.
0:48.0	I think we have the same disease in that way.
0:50.9	But today we're going to meet a couple from Montana who did just that.
0:55.1	They went on vacation, off the grid, no internet, no cell service, it was glorious, until
1:01.9	they came back.
1:03.5	And that is when they realized they had unknowingly gone viral and ended up in a fiery feud with
1:10.4	one of Fox News' most controversial commentators.
1:15.0	Today's episode comes from season 2 of the podcast Shared State, which was reported and
1:20.0	produced by the Montana Free Press, Montana Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio.
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