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The Political Orphanage

Wolves! Felons! Ranked Choice Voting! State Ballot Initiatives

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Politics, Comedy, News

4.91000 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The World's Smartest Podcast Network roundtable convenes to bring you a guide to state ballot initiatives happening around the country:
 
Reintroducing wolves to Colorado, reintroducing ethnic discrimination to California, voting and involuntary labor for felons, and Ranked Choice Voting in Massachusetts.
 
The Roundtable includes: Turner Sparks and Michael Kaplan of the "Lost in America" podcast and Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy of "Ask a Political Scientist". Go to worldssmartestpodcastnetwork.com to check them out!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky

0:07.0

misfits and problem solvers. Today we're going to talk about the election, but not the presidential election.

0:16.2

Not Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

0:18.2

We're going to talk about other stuff happening on Tuesday.

0:21.7

And my God, aren't you relieved that that's what we're going to do?

0:26.0

We're talking about today state referendums and ballot initiatives.

0:30.0

So these are the these are the prop six, prop four, all that stuff that

0:34.7

that voters in individual states determine the law of what is going to be in their

0:39.8

home moving forward. And there's a bunch of interesting ones today that I am going to

0:44.2

unpack with the delightful world's smartest podcasting network of which I am a part

0:52.4

we are a new and glorious podcasting network that is going to do, I think, a monthly roundtable, myself, Andrea Turner and Mike, and today we are going to talk about ballot initiatives and referendums and the ones that peaked our fancies.

1:06.7

If you want to check out my fellow panelists today, you can go to World Smartest Podcast Network.com. You'll be able to see the other programs

1:14.9

that the people you're hearing from host. All right, enjoy. But first, my antics today

1:22.4

and knowledge that I will be sharing with you is funded by you,

1:27.0

the listener.

1:29.0

And you can do it through Patreon.com slash Andrew Heaton, in addition to helping the show and I dare say

1:35.6

making the world just a little bit smarter you'll also get bonus content mostly

1:39.8

the last couple of weeks me palan around with Justin Robert Young, my inveterate comedy

1:45.2

podcasting ally. But every week there's something. Sometimes it's monologue, sometimes

1:49.6

it's an extra guest segment, sometimes it's me, sometimes it's me picking the brain of

1:54.6

just Robert Young or other Miss Grant's. Good stuff, good stuff. Go to

1:59.6

Patreon.com slash Andrew Heaton. Thanks.

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