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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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"Decency is why we're all here"

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/30

The prior weekend's White House Press Correspondents' Dinner - given all that's going on - may have felt a bit 'out of touch' to some (myself included) but Colin Jost's 23-minute set was loaded with laughs. It was also punctuated with a touching tribute by Jost for both his recently departed grandfather and the President. I thought it poignant to share the whole thing, sure (mostly to give myself a break prepping a show, no lie), but also because - as Jost put it -

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00:44:30

Emory show us why "Cop City" will be a police "campus"

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/26

Protestors clashed with Emory & Atlanta police and Georgia State Patrol officers yesterday leaving us with some awful optics - two professors among the 28 arrested - and lingering concerns about the electoral ramifications. Even in the Emory aftermath, divisions persisted. Between pushback from younger voters on the U.S. support of Israel at the expense of Gaza citizens, a looming TikTok ban and financial and civil rights angst, prospects for high turnout this cycle are dimming. President

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00:44:30

Is Biden in a no-win situation - and if so, on how...

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/26

Huzzah - most the Atlanta Beltline will be done in time for the World Cup in 2026. And? Most soccer fans will be nowhere near it, so forgive me if I don't understand the celebratory tone over that milestone. Aid to Ukraine - tied to aid to Israel and Taiwan AND a potential TIkTok ban - may have damning effects on support for the incumbent President from the under-30 voter. I discuss that and more with Andrew Heaton, political consultant with Sagamore Hill Consulting. --- Send in a voice

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00:44:29

Kemp's political calculus on Medicaid & who's booting...

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/23

Yesterday we glossed over Friday's "Politically Georgia" podcast featuring a Thursday Q&A - recorded before an audience - with Governor Brian Kemp. Today, we hone in on his hardline stance on Medicaid expansion. The man is stubborn(ly refusing to admit his 'Pathways' program is failing & costs Georgia taxpayers more than outright expansion would). Jay Bookman writes an op-ed in the Georgia Recorder that surmises the political calculus Kemp's employing for his future

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00:44:32

Kemp on Trump ('maybe') and Medicaid expansion ('no')

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/23

Georgia governor Brian Kemp did a wide-ranging interview with the "Politically Georgia" podcast hosts last Thursday, which aired last Friday morning on WABE-FM and via podcast (listen here). In it, Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Bill Nigut grilled the governor to figure out where his support for the GOP presidential nominee is (we know where wife, Marty, stands, for now), his views on immigration, his stance on abortion rights in the face of 'dog catches car'

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Not 'bull' on hockey, yet; how I-Buyers made our...

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/20

We've been hearing a lot of guff lately over dueling development proposals - one in Forsyth, the other in Alpharetta - with professional hockey arenas as centerpieces. Well, there seems to have been movement (literally) putting either or both on hold or providing some doubt for the near term. Governor Brian Kemp is getting ahead of everyone and crapping on any notion of potential Medicaid expansion in 2025, despite his alternative program spending most of its $26 million (so far) on

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Can you complain about the radicalized if you...

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/19

Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens & police chief Darin Schierbaum held a press conference in the aftermath of recent vandalism allegedly at the hands of anti-public safety training facility. In this presser, the mayor and chief made the case that protestors were shirking peaceful and democratic means, but isn't actually true that those opposed to "Cop City" tried the peaceful & democratic route only to be obstructed at every turn?Housing starts are down somewhat significantly, year

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00:44:29

Carr parked in a lot of hypocrisy

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/18

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr joined Tuesday's "Politically Georgia" podcast and had strong thoughts about enjoining a lawsuit against the Biden administration's efforts to ramp up student loan forgiveness but not much to say about why he chose (seemingly unilaterally) not to pursue that "rule of law" preening posture when attempts to overturn the 2020 election were on his desk. Marge Greene seems to be (nearly) alone on an island (and backtracking) over her latest

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Milkshakes, chicken & 'astroturf'

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/18

The former President swooped in last week for some Buckhead bucks-grabbing but made an impromptu (or was it?) stop in Vine City to close the deal on an astroturfed photo op. That's right, it was staged. Dr. Jason Johnson and podcast host Clay Cane autopsied the whole thing, and while I take issue with Dr. Johnson casting aspersions on the Chick Fil-A franchise owner for not going all "Joe the Plumber" on Trump, the conversation otherwise properly frames the set-up for what it was:

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Listening in on the 'Atlanta Voice' - catching up...

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/12

It had been a minute since 'Atlanta Voice' editor-in-chief Donnell Suggs had been on the show, so I reached out to him last night to see if he had some time today and, fortunate for me, he did!We covered a range of topics - from the Mets getting the better of the Braves this week (what?!?) to OJ Simpson's passing and social media making light of it to Trump's Atlanta visit and polling data for black voters, comedienne Dulce Sloan's love for Atlanta, to the shouting match at a

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Tump's "milkshake & chicken" stop in the ATL

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/12

Former president Donald Trump swooped into metro Atlanta Wednesday (that explains the traffic ... ) for a Buckhead fundraiser but made a Vine City Chick Fil-A stop where he ordered "30 milkshakes and some chicken" (Strips? Nuggies? Sandwiches? Wraps?) which went viral, as did his taking photos with mostly black patrons. We call this "astro-turfing" because the truth is, it was all a set-up. More on that on Monday's show. He also regurgitated the lie that he "saved

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00:44:30

Short-haired Arizona pet catches car & maybe the Fed...

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/10

Another example of "dog catches car" in Arizona yesterday as a (GOP-packed) state Supreme Court believes an 1864 law (that predates Arizona even being a state) is where reproductive rights is properly codified. The former governor who packed that court, the current GOP Senate candidate (and Trump pet) - who on the record two years ago supported going back to that 1864 law - and other Republicans are now backtracking because a ballot measure will also land on Arizona ballots in 2024 with 11

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00:44:32

A literal hodge-podge of stuff

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/10

Not gonna lie; I hopped around the local & national headlines a bit, today, without much of an agenda, but did touch on a former city of Atlanta CFO admitting guilt in a near-decade long case where he was charged with use of funds for personal gain, among other things. Kudos to the AJC for its investigation into poor handling of 911 calls by Atlanta and other metro agencies. Also, new WIC guidelines evoke reminders of former First Lady Michelle Obama pursuing healthier food options for children

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Atlanta transit: when "FOMO" meets "just MO"

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/09

Today begins a six-week (I bet it's at least eight) stretch where airport passengers and employees have to live without its MARTA station "at" Hartsfield-Jackson and with current transit woes and metro growth projections, of course the region and state is behind where it needs to be. So I felt it necessary to build off the conversation had on yesterday's "The Georgia Gang" (airing locally on WAGA-TV/Fox 5) segment that dove in on MARTA, in-city "Beltline" rail,

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REPLAY: Chitra Ragavan on Fani Willis & powerful...

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/04

In late February, I reached out to ⁠Chitra Ragavan⁠, a CEO and c-suite coach, journalist journalist ⁠and podcaster whose ⁠op/ed in the AJC last week⁠ discussing Fani Willis and the perils of being an ambitious "dominant" woman in the workplace caught my eye. Hear us discuss Fani's dilemma, her mis-steps and how treacherous being a career-driven and successful woman in the workplace is. Follow Chitra on Twitter/X at @chitra_ragavan and read her latest blog expounding on her thoughts

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Replay: Meet the man behind 'Anecdotal ATL'

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/04

Originally airing May 6, 2023 HERE I got to hang out with CNN producer, Kennesaw State professor & Anecdotal ATL creator & host Will Edmunds. DO follow @anecdotalATL on ⁠Instagram⁠ and/or ⁠TikTok ⁠and learn SO much Atlanta history that's not "textbook history" and get to know how it came to be and meet Will with me!

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Replay: Rural Georgia preacher bucks the baptist...

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/02

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 his

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00:44:31

Stacey Abrams speaks to representation, Fareed to...

The Ron Show ·

2024/04/02

Two Thursdays ago, Stacey Abrams joined a Howard University symposium - "Black Women in Politics" - and I'm sharing that audio today, along with a short Q&A after it, where Abrams referenced voter suppression tactics and Medicaid expansion filibusters here in Georgia. Meanwhile, last weekend, Fareed Zaharia invoked Abrams in a "whataboutist" stretch of sorts. In a conversation on 'Real Time with Bill Maher,' he tried comparing Abrams' not conceding in 2018 to

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00:44:30

Bills are done; some are dead

The Ron Show ·

2024/03/31

The 2024 Georgia legislative session came to an end Thursday night / Friday morning and while the GOP pushed through a number of awful bills awaiting Governor Brian Kemp's signature, not all of their "read meat" wish list made the cut. Notably, none of their anti-LGBTQIA+ garbage made it. So there's that. New voter challenge rules passed, despite a spirited and fact-laden diatribe by Rep. Saira Draper on the House floor. The "Laken Riley Act," HB 1105, did pass, much of

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'Sine Die' doth occur & Donald's hawking overpriced...

The Ron Show ·

2024/03/29

As Georgia's final legislative day on the calendar in 2024 - 'Sine Die' - came today, it's worth reviewing the bills jammed through both the Senate and House before the grande finale, so we'll eavesdrop on GPB's "Lawmakers" to get a feel for what's passing and what isn't. One I actually love - and spearheaded by a Republican I actually kinda like - provides renter protections & insists on livable standards for rented properties.Meanwhile, the

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