This is Why We Don't Trust the Government
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On episode 103 of Native Land Pod, hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers are TOGETHER at a studio in Houston, Texas.
Starting on November 1st, SNAP (food stamps) benefits will reportedly run out of funding, affecting more than 40 million Americans, or about 10% of the country. This despite the fact that the federal government could easily appropriate funds to continue the SNAP program through November. This is a result of the federal government shutdown which will soon be the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
This shutdown is doing damage to American’s faith in our own government. With Democrats poised to take control of the House in 2026, what responsibility will they have to restore the trust deficit?
And in the meantime, wtf do WE do?!? Our hosts discuss how to stand in the gap and support our communities even when the government won’t.
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Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Tiffany Cross as host and producer, Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | Native Lampod is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome home, y'all. |
| 0:14.9 | Welcome to another episode. |
| 0:16.3 | Episode 103, only three that really count, but whatever. |
| 0:20.3 | I am Bacari Sellers. I'm your kind of host with these three amazing people. We have Andrew Gillum. We're switching it up a little bit. We're going to introduce the fellas first. Yes, yes. And then we have Angela Rye. And we have the amazing immaculant Tiffany Cross. And so I just want to say welcome home. That remind me to that viewer question. |
| 0:38.3 | He just triggered me again. |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah, I know. I knew you were going to say that. When the viewer was like, and so I got a question for you. And Ms. Cross, I got a question for you. So we're going to start with what's on your heart and mind. What's some of the things you want to talk about? I don't want to start with you, Andrew. |
| 0:52.6 | There's so much in the space. |
| 0:53.5 | One, we should acknowledge we're here in Texas deal. |
| 0:56.0 | Yes. |
| 0:57.6 | Very much like Florida for me. But what's on my heart in mind is this shutdown, which is now showing up for a lot of our government workers as the first week, some the second week that they haven't gotten a check. And so, thus, you know, stuff is getting desperate. |
| 1:12.1 | We should talk about it. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah, Angela. |
| 1:13.9 | Yes, I agree. |
| 1:14.9 | And the path forward, what can our community do? |
| 1:17.2 | Because we've always had to rely on each other when we couldn't rely on the government. |
| 1:20.8 | I think on that, apparently you can't rely on good information these days. |
| 1:24.4 | So I want to talk about NAACP's endorsement, |
| 1:27.9 | alleged endorsement |
| 1:29.3 | of Abigail Spanberger, |
| 1:31.5 | which never happened, but we'll get into that. |
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