TGS Live: What to a Slav Is the Fourth of July?
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
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🗓️ 6 July 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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I’m back with my creative director Nikita Petrov on our latest livestream. As you may know, Nikita is Russian. He’s spent some time in the US, but he’s still got a lot of questions about how we do things here and why. This was recorded the day before the Independence Day holiday, and we thought it would be a perfect opportunity to address some of Nikita’s questions (and yours) about the strange folkways of the American people
In this installment, we talk about the meaning of the American flag, ChatGPT’s 50 unique facts about the US, voter ID laws, the validity of the 2020 election, border security and immigration, ICE, the attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide (if that’s what it was!), Christian Zionism, advice for aspiring authors, free speech, the Big Beautiful Bill, taxes, spiritual conflict within the family, the X-Files, and third-party politics.
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| 0:00.0 | neighbor's name and I vote as if I'm them. Well, I don't know how frequently that happens in the |
| 0:08.5 | United States, but I can't think of any reason why it couldn't happen in principle. You know, |
| 0:15.2 | I don't know the answer to that question. Let me try to answer the question, why we don't have |
| 0:20.6 | voter idea, why it's so controversial. |
| 0:24.0 | And I think it's partisanship. |
| 0:25.6 | I think it's about left-right Democrat Party |
| 0:31.3 | versus Republican Party self-interest coming into conflict. |
| 0:36.3 | I think the Democrats want to make it less onerous for constituents who might be |
| 0:45.6 | adversely affected by the requirement to present ID, making it less onerous for them to, |
| 0:57.8 | I'm sorry, they're against it being made more onerous for such people to cast a ballot. And they're going to say it's disproportionately |
| 1:03.0 | affecting low income and minority voters. And they're reckoning that those voters are more |
| 1:09.3 | likely to support left of center candidates. |
| 1:13.1 | And so they wanted an open field. |
| 1:15.3 | Now, I'm not going to say they want unauthorized people to vote. |
| 1:18.9 | I don't know that, but the aversion to having unauthorized people voting is a different calculation for them than it might be for someone |
| 1:30.8 | who thinks that unauthorized vote will go against their candidate. |
| 1:37.5 | So I think, I mean, this goes both ways. |
| 1:40.5 | It goes in the direction of accounting for how it is that advocates of no ID |
| 1:46.8 | reckon their interest. They want as many people to get to the ballot box as possible because |
| 1:53.1 | the marginal people, the people who would be precluded by a rigorous examination of identity |
| 1:59.5 | are more likely to support them. |
| 2:01.9 | And likewise, it goes for the other side, the side who's insisting under the umbrella of saying, |
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