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The Ron Show

Welcome to the Ron Show - Atlanta"s only progressive audio platform airing five days a week on Georgia Now, M-F 4-6pm (replaying 8-10am the next weekday). Host Ron Roberts covers Atlanta, metro Atlanta, Georgia and national politics from a pretty unique lens ... he"s just your run-of-the-mill Georgia-born gay progressive cat-dad realtor & talk show host. Dime a dozen, right?

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Four years ago today has been (but cannot be) forgotten

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/06

I wanted to share the touching tributes from President Jimmy Carter's friends and loved ones today, and told myself that's what I'd do, yesterday. Then I awoke today realizing the date - January 6th - and I couldn't do it. We're 23-plus years removed from 9/11 and it feels as if too many of us lost as much track of January 6, 2021 in just four years as we have that fateful day nearly a quarter century ago. Well, Congress affirmed the election results today, essentially allowing a four-year

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Trump's "too-soon" Truth takes are a taste of what's...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/04

In the wake of the terror attack on New Orleans' famed Bourbon Street, President-elect Donald Trump made the (il)logical leap to tie the Biden administration's border actions to the carnage. Nevermind that it took mere hours for investigators to learn the murderous thug was an American-born former Army veteran who grew up Baptist but converted to Islam before being radicalized. Did Donald Trump do the responsible thing and retract his Truth social post? Nah. He doubled-down on it. That's a

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A sportswriter's account of horror on NOLA &...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/02

Today we're just coming to grips with the horror levied on dozens of revelers on Bourbon Street in the early hours of New Year's Day, and I found it notable that Ken Suguira, a sports writer with the Atlanta Journal Constitution penned - in my mind - one of the more poingant pieces of journalism from the scene. There to cover the University of Georgai's football game, he was, instead, thrust into action reporting on a terror attack. In Georgia's Cobb County - a decidedly (now) "blue" county has a

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"The last word" on Jimmy Carter & what Politico saw...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/31

The New York Times released an 11-minute video with never-before-seen footage of a conversation between President Jimmy Carter and the Times in 2006. A rather solid summation of Carter's perilous four-year, one-term presidency and the decision he made to contiue pursuing his ideals, domestically and globally, after leaving office. Let's eavesdrop a little. Politico's politics editor David Ciders cleaned out his 2024 campaign notebook that's pretty insightful, with some notable quotes and quips from

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00:44:31

Remembering Jimmy Carter: the best of intentions

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/30

When I'd heard of the passing of President Jimmy Carter, I knew right away the two conversations I wanted to have - and I'm grateful both guests had the time for me. Georgia WIN List executive director Melita Easters was a reporter on the ground in Plains, Georgia the night a triumphant Carter returned as "President-elect" and brings a wealth of anecdotes, background and insights into Carter's life before, during and after his presidency. Author, historian and professor of sociology, Mal Hyman,

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Fani's fumble & Trump's second term has begun

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/21

Atlanta Journal Constitution opinion writer Bill Torpey minced few words; in fact, he may have over-flowered a bit. Nonetheless, his summarizing the aftermath of a Georgia Appeals Court ruling that Fani Willis and the Fultono County DA's office has to cough up the Trump election interference case lays bare all that Willis and Nathan Wade did to potentially ruin (my opinion) the most rock-solid case agains the convicted felon about to re-take the White House.Meanwhile, while the latst "governent

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GA's 'bait-and-switch' school voucher scheme &...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/20

Friend of the show Jay Bookman penned a piece chonicling how unpopular taxpayer funded private school vouchers are with conservatives and liberals - red and blue states. He also deftly explained what's happening in Georgia as a program set to aid maybe 6% of the state's student population attend a private school - with 1% of its education budget - suddenly appears to be available to nearly 20% of the state's students - at a much higher taxpayer cost - due to an interpretation by an unelected board

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Reviewing Bill & Jane's 'random' podcast: Maher's...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/18

Bill Maher's made a quite comfortable living pointing out how Fox News & right wing talk radio has manipulated a bloc of voters - in his brand of comedic political satire from "Politically Incorrect" to "Real Time" to ... well, now, this era where he doesn't sound all that awfully different than Joe Rogan, honestly. Rogan, of course, is also a white male whose political views are actually very closely aligned to Maher's - and Maher's recent guest, Jane Fonda. Jane and Bill sat down for his

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A study in (some) contrast: moderates, progressives &...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/18

As I'd mentioned Monday, I did a lot of reading over the weekend, and was struck by two pieces that offered two Democratic congressional reps offering differing rationales for why Democrats lost control of Washington. What's funny is, they almost actually sound the same, despite one being a blue collar district moderate, the other the new chair of the Progressive caucus.

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Joe's legacy & Kamala's future

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/17

As humans, we're all curious as to what the future holds for us, individually and societally, and it's natural to wonder how we'll be remembered when we walk off into the sunset, too. Such is the case for outgoing President Joe Biden, who's making the rounds reminding audiences what his administration inherited and overcame, what they accomplished, and what they're leaving for an incoming administration (at least outwardly) hell-bent on undoing their work. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris,

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The MAGA who cried "wolf" & of course Trump lied...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/14

A Georgia House race decided by 48 votes may actually have been fouled up by a county elections office sending 60 or so voters the wrong ballots. The problem is, the losing canddiate - a MAGA Republican - "cried wolf" in ways reminiscent of 2020 nonsense that no one took her claims seriously. It also didn't help she couldn't substantiate any of her claims. What happens next is anyone's guess, but state law seems clear: an expensive run-off for 40,000 voters over less than a hundred voters getting

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00:44:30

Hegseth's bigotry was there all along

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/12

Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Defense - Pete Hegseth - is as qualified for that role as I am to be a grocery chain CEO. I worked in grocery retail a few years while in high school and college; why not?What Pete IS qualified for, however, is the label "anti-gay bigot." Like Donald; like Pete, though. Trump's attack ad targeting trans support form VP Kalama Harris - though steeped in disinformation - worked.. So here we are - with gender-affirming care now being denied to veterans'

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For Luigi, the American jury is split | 'Meet the...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/10

The arrest & info we're learning about Luigi Mangione - the alleged killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson is bringing out a reaction from the American people that's pretty telling. You'd think we'd be unified in our abhorrence of a blatant assassination, and yet ... we're divided. I've some theories: healthcare and health insurance isn't delivering to customers what customers pay for (obvious) and a general disdain by many in this country for the "corporate capitalism" our society's

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'Meet the Suppressed,' part one

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/10

President-elect Donald Trump sat down last week with 'Meet The Press' host Kristen Welker, and upon further review, Welker seemed 'suppressed,' either on her own or by edict.Never mind that Trump continued spewing falsehoods; that's to be expected. That Welker rarely pushed back is of vital concern for journalistic integrity. This sit-down wasn't "Fox News-friendly" but it wasn't much tougher, either. Take a listen to the first half of that conversation with me as I sprinkle in some fact-checks,

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Dalton "finding out" & so are Joe & Mika

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/07

A recent Wall Street Journal piece zoomed in on nearby Dalton, Georgia - the self-professed "carpet capital." Business and civic are already dreading the effect of a looming mass deportation promised by the Donald Trump the town and county it's in overwhelmingly voted for.The economic impact on a town like Dalton, Georgia cannot be overstated; the question is, how many other "Dalton, Georgias" dot the state and U.S. map? Meanwhile, watching as MSNBC's "Morning Joe" swirls the drain is rather

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The aborting of Georgia's maternal mortality...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/05

In a move surely meant to make an examples the ousted committee members, we learned just two weeks ago that Georgia's commissioner of the state Department of Public Health, Kathleen Toomey, had informed the entire committee it was being disbanded. Why? It would appear Toomey and state Republican leaders weren't thrilled that Pro Publica was able to go public with information tying Georgia's six-week abortion ban to at least two deaths sicne 2022. Surely there are more, but because the data usually

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"The Brainwashing of My Dad" doc deserves another...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/04

"The Brainwashing of My Dad" is both a 2016 documentary and a subsequent book, both the inspiration of the real-life experience of author and documentarian Jen Senko, who joined me today to share her experience and insights into that very-real "vast right wing conspiracy" mechanism Hillary Clinton spoke of so many years ago.It's real; it preys on many of our nation's worth societal shortcomings, and - as I've discussed in recent weeks - is metastasizing and repopulating a new wave of misguided

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Pardon my indifference / how radio became a right...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/03

There's a vigorous debate , left-of-center, about the Hunter Biden pardon, and while the likes of Jon Stewart, Leigh McGowan (aka "Politics Girl") and Rep. Jasmine Crockett all have hot (or hilarious) takes, I'm sort of indifferent but certainly not upset. Post-election, I've focused a good bit on the need for the left to have its own media "ecosystem" the way the right was grown theirs the last half century-plus. Oddly enough, NPR's "On The Media" focused on how the radio dial got to be so overtly

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"The pardon," my convo with Sen. Jones in GA & my...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/02

I'm having a hard time being upset that President Joe Biden went back on his word and pardoned his son, Hunter, last night. I challenge any parent in the same circumstance to do any different, and while I'm happy to have this conversation w/anyone outside the MAGA bubble, I've no time nor interest in hearing from the partisans ushering in a Cabinet stocked with sexual offenders appointed by a convicted felon who just appointed another felon he pardoned to be our ambassador to France. My guest today

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REPLAY: Rural GA preacher bucks baptist stereotype &...

The Ron Show ·

2024/11/28

Happy Thanksgiving! Today's show originally aired July 10, 2023. In Hartwell, a rural Georgia lake community, pastor Grant Myerholtz convenes a growing "Baptist" congregation in an unusual way (for a baptist church, anyway): he chooses inclusivity. In an era where churches big and small are seeing declines in attendance, his Mt Hebron Baptist Church has grown from a dozen to more than a hundred. Featured in ⁠a Washington Post piece⁠, Grant joined me last summer to let me learn more about him and

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