SIO46: AHCA - The Scandal Hiding in Plain Sight

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🗓️ 1 June 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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After a few small points about the last couple episodes on the hoax paper, we're back to normal here on commentary Thursday! Today's main topic is the CBO score on the new incarnation of the evil AHCA bill. AHCA is, in my opinion, the most important political scandal currently happening. After that is a very difficult voicemail segment, in that there are 3 tough questions with no easy answers. But those are the most important kind! Links: CBO Score on AHCA 2; NPR Breakdown on CBO Score; In Depth Uproxx Article on the Burrito Truck; Google Doc on Portland Appropriation; Academic Paper on Cultural Appropriation Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/seriouspod Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email [email protected] Questions, Suggestions, Episode ideas? email: [email protected]

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0:00.0	You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only. This is episode number 46.
0:33.7	I'm your host Thomas Smith.
0:35.5	Okay, after what feels like a bit of a hiatus
0:38.7	in terms of the commentary Thursdays here,
0:41.4	we're back to a pretty normal commentary Thursday. I've got some
0:45.0	great stuff to talk to you about. The CBO score, I didn't get to address that. I
0:49.1	think it's very important. I do not want to miss that. The CBO score came out for the new version of the American
0:56.1	Health Care Act and I want to talk about that. I think it's the most important issue maybe in
1:01.5	politics right now. I really do and I'm going to tell you why and then I have
1:04.7	some great voicemails really top stuff only three of them because they're big I don't
1:10.4	want to take too long but I'm going to talk about cultural appropriation
1:13.7	something I've never to my memory I don't like I've ever addressed I've got some
1:17.6	thoughts on that and then also a couple other really thoughtful important
1:22.1	voicemail so super excited about this
1:24.1	episode before I do that I just need to tie up a couple loose ends about the last
1:29.4	episode with James and the hoax paper and all that. I just want to talk about a couple
1:34.3	things that I'm hearing just to address it while I can but I'm not going to spend
1:38.0	too much time on it. So I want to thank you guys for the overwhelming response to Monday's episode really I just thank you so much everybody who just had really nice things to say about the episode. I can't tell you how much I appreciate that. It really drives the show as well as the people who pledged in response thank you so much for
2:04.6	your support and I want to say not that this is what determines whether someone is
2:08.9	right or wrong so not that I'm using this as reasoning for my position, but for moral encouragement and for to kind of reinforce like am I crazy or not
2:20.1	Every email I received in support was from like a PhD or from someone in academia,
2:28.0	thoughtful long emails giving me details and oh, they'll look at this and check this out and the only the couple
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