The Jackpod: Outside the beltway

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.2 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on emerging angst and growing protests over the Trump administration, far from the centers of political power in Washington D.C.

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0:30.0	WBUR Podcast there, Jack. Hello, Megna. history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now.
0:56.3	Hello there, Jack.
0:57.6	Hello, Magna.
0:58.4	We are at episode 71 and your headline.
1:02.3	Outside the Beltway.
1:04.1	I'm desperate to get outside the beltway, so tell me more, Jack.
1:08.7	Well, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin is a 16-hour drive away from the Beltway north by northwest.
1:21.3	If I can situate it for you, this will put it on your metal map.
1:25.6	It's halfway between Warsaw and mononomy.
1:29.7	You know, you know, the area I'm talking about.
1:32.4	So I'm reading a story in the Washington Post just recently, a couple of days ago,
1:38.3	about the Republican congressman from that district.
1:42.7	His name is Van Orden.
1:47.6	He's refusing to hold town hall meetings with his constituents or even really to meet with them in his office. And he's denounced
1:56.0	people who are attending these kinds of things around the country as agitators, lawbreakers,
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