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Civics, Y’all!

Civics, Y’all! is a podcast that explores the intersection of civics, politics and our everyday lives. We hope to be a show where people who normally don’t follow politics will find more approachable and digestible conversations, and perhaps learn something along the way. This is a political conversation for all of us!

Copyright: © Copyright 2020 Staat Strong Productions

Latest Episodes:

Civics, Y'all! "Live" Election Day Bonus Episode 2 Nov 03, 2020

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Our second "live" episode featuring CT Cook, Maurice Ruffin, Jadi and Noel.

This conversation went "long," but it's sooooo good.

Also, Noel and our guest Maurice Carlos Ruffin just kept talking after we ended this session and that content is only available on our Patreon. Show Patreon if you want to listen!

Civics, Y'all "Live" Election Day Bonus Episode 1 Nov 03, 2020

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Hi y'all! We're trying something new today - "live" episodes that we record and post without any editing. All three co-hosts will drop in to a live episode, as well as guests from previous episodes.

This first episode features Emilie, Noel and Toby from Episode 8.

Show notes added later.

Civics, Y'all! Episode 8 - Election Day, Y'all! Nov 03, 2020

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Emilie, Jadi and Noel talk about their voting experiences - plus special guests Thomas and Toby, a listener of the show and his 18 year old son who voted for the first time.

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The Handmaid's Tale

Flock of Seagulls (the band)

Citizen Kang (Treehouse of Horror)

Knock the House

2020 General Election Early Voting Map

2000 election (hanging chads)

political alignment quiz

Generation Z and socialism

Louisiana "I Voted" stickers

Becoming One Nation Party

Elizabeth Warren

Civics, Y'all! Bonus Episode - The rest of the ballot Nov 02, 2020

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We talk about alllllll of the Louisiana Senate Candidates, the Representative and DA races and touch on the judges, municipal court and school board races.

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Teofimo Lopez v Vasiliy Lomachenko fight

Louisiana sample ballot

DSA Voter Guide

Mayors for a Guaranteed Income UBI experiment

Why say "unhoused" instead of "homeless"?

Charter schools in Louisiana

Civics, Y'all! Bonus Episode - Where have all the good presidents gone? Oct 30, 2020

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If you're hearing Bonnie Tyler's voice singing this week's title, that is no accident. I'm currently listening to her song "I Need a Hero" (which I "accidentally" typed as "her" first).

In this conversation, Jadi and I talk with New Orleans author (and one of my best friends) Maurice Carlos Ruffin about Kanye West and the rest of the presidential race.

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Coming to America

The Golden Child

Mary Matalin and James Carville

Trump is no Republican

how third parties get federal funding

Bernie Sanders and the Democrats

U.N.I.T.Y. by Queen Latifah

Kanye West for President

Michelle Tidball

Marianne Williamson

must the president and VP be from different states?

Panem / The Hunger Games

is the Electoral College gerrymandering?

Becoming One Nation Party

Claudeliah Roze

Maurice Carlos Ruffin + his mama voting

Civics, Y'all! Episode 7 - "What does it take to run for office?" Oct 27, 2020

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We respond to listener feedback, interview Tania Nyman who is running for Metro Council in Baton Rouge, and John Paul Bourgeois, who is running for Senate. Brace yourself for all of the Louisiana names you're about to hear!

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the difference between civics and politics (per Sen. Ben Sasse)

George Mason University

Louisiana State University

Dictionary of Louisiana French

Breakaway school districts / St. George / resegregation

Metro Council (Baton Rouge)

1988 Presidential Election

Advice and Consent / Senate and the Supreme Court

John Paul Bourgeois

Masters of Public Health

FEC - campaign finance

Pope John Paul II

2020 US Senate election in Louisiana

Bill Cassidy's record

LSMA in Nachitoches

2008 Presidential Election

Louisiana Tech Ruston, LA

Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me

Pro-life is just anti-abortion

early voting in Louisiana

does raising the minimum wage increase inflation?

Episode 5 (USPS episode, Trixie Minx)

Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to Supreme Court

Supreme Court might decide the 2020 presidential election

Civics, Y'all! Episode 6 - "What good is a confirmation hearing?" Oct 20, 2020

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We dive into the Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court confirmation hearing, talk with Alex Stockton, a former Trump voter, and learn about Louisiana Amendment 5 Kahlida Nicole Lloyd.

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Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court confirmation hearing

ACB's 7th Circuit Court opinions

Kanter v Barr (right to guns / voting)

PBS NewsHour ABC hearing

transracial adoption

Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearing (again, sorry)

Schoolhouse Rock (again, not sorry)

2004 Presidential election

2008 Presidential election

Dr. Nicki Washington on Twitter

Me Too Movement

socially liberal

Alex's travel business

fake Kurt Cobain quote

Democrat or Republican quiz

more options political ideology quiz

Hatfield-McCoy feud

basket of deplorables

Hilary documentary

Mission Reconcile

Together Louisiana

Precinct Organizing Project

Obamas visited Miami's "mega-magnet" school

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's replacement

religion and slavery

First Grace Methodist

Bridge the Gap GOTV

Amendment 5/Why Louisiana Stays Poor

St. John the Baptist's taxes and teachers

Amendment 5 Citizen Education Thursdays

Amy Coney Barrett has only be a federal judge three years

will the Supreme Court decide the 2020 election?

challenges to Roe v Wade

Emilie Staat Strong Patreon

Civics, Y'all! Episode 5 - "The Post Office is in the Constitution?!?" Oct 13, 2020

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We discover what the Post Office means to our country.

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the Post Office is in the Constitution

Louisiana contact tracing

Lord Melvyn Bragg

Sesame Street Post Office Episode

mail slow downs

Governor Edwards

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

service industry

the military and the Post Office

WWII and Jewish-American soldiers

Trixie's grandpa video

Trixie's Post Office video

sexy Paul Revere

Senator Bill Cassidy

Senator John Kennedy

Minx Burlesque NOLA - Tuesdays

Minx Burlesque Atlanta - Oct 24 & 31

fun facts about the Post Office

Emilie Staat Strong Patreon

Civics, Y'all! Episode 4 - "What's the deal with partisanship?" Oct 06, 2020

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Jefferson's letter to James Madison September 6, 1789

rules of debates

pro-choice, pro-life rhetoric

fetal development

definition of didactic (I used this word twice, not entirely correctly)

separation of immigrant parents and children

forced hysterectomies

Courtney Tierra episode

"basket of deplorables"

Caste, Isabel Wilkerson

second presidential debate, 2016

Everyday Sexism, Laura Bates

The Feminist Utopia Project

abstinence-only education and teen pregnancy

early Christianity, fish symbol

traumatic effect of the debate

white women voted for Trump

effect of domestic abuse on elections

Me, Too movement

Affirmative Action

Listener homework - let us know what you think about the show at civics.yall.podcast@gmail.com

Civics, Y'all! Episode 3 - "How does checks and balances work?" Sep 29, 2020

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Universal Basic Income

80s and 90s movies about stockbrokers

black culture is American culture

Fear the Walking Dead

Brett Kavanaugh nomination

2nd presidential debate - Hilary Clinton & Donald Trump

separation of powers

three branches of government

checks and balances

evolution of the presidency

Sonia Sotomayor & Elena Kagan

Merrick Garland nomination

Christine Blasey Ford

restorative justice

You're Wrong About - Anita Hill & Monica Lewinsky

George W. Bush's female judicial nominee

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