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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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00:44:30

This 'n That

The Ron Show ·

2023/11/01

No real show agenda today, and no one "major" story to harp on, so I bounced around a good bit. There's discussion on new state maps, our cooler (and drier & windier - be careful with the yard burns) weather, how to put Georgia's $16 billion surplus to use, the escalating death toll in Gaza, the rise in ugly antisemitism here in Georgia and the prospects of an MTG presidential campaign? Hasn't America suffered enough?

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00:44:29

Without compromise, extremism dominates

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/30

Georgia's Department of Family & Childres Services were accused - in a Senate subcommittee hearing today - of seeking permission to detain special needs kids in the foster system. DETAIN. The state with the $11.7 billion (or more) surplus, with a stretched-thin DHS system and inadequate facilities for the special needs community, has a foster system looking to "detain" kids as a temporary (or is it?) solution. Let that sink in. Political hyperbole is festering between the parties,

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00:44:29

"MAGA Mike's" mild grilling

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/28

"MAGA Mike" Johnson, new Speaker of the House, got the soft glove treatment from Sean Hannity Thursday night on Fox News, but there were a handful of moments worth hearing & chiming in on. They touched on gun policy (sort of), which gave me an excuse to share some Randy Rainbow work, aid to Israel & Ukraine (Sean, invoking the 'European fair share' trope - roundly debunked), Johnson's anti-gay work & opining, abortion & more. Also, Patricia Murphy penned a

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00:44:30

Another armed nut & Georgia's map zapped

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/27

Another deadly mass shooting has a community and surrounding state essentially on lockdown and a numb nation is immobile to do anything. I spoke with Leigh Richardson, licensed counselor, founder of The Brain Performance Center and author of the book "Turn Your Brain On to Get Your Game On: The How, What, Why to Peak Performance" to ask how survivors & grief-stricken loved ones handle such a scenario and what, if anything, can mental health professionals do if or when they're

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00:44:30

The day that sums up the GOP

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/25

Georgia Republicans seem to forget we've jail overcrowding and judicial backlog problems; they're looking to make both worse by ramping UP cash bonds, because .... the cruelty is the point. The bill's author, a former (disgraced) cop, himself. Lt. Governor Burt Jones also wants to "gun up" your kid's gym teacher. Then there's the new GOP House Speaker, an anti-gay, anti-choice election denier, flanked by Grandma Moses-like Virginia Foxx imploring people of color

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00:43:31

"Cousin" Shea, Jenna's act & Beltline Buffoonery

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/24

Rep. Shea Roberts (maybe we're cousins?) joined me today to begin by soundly criticizing the state Supreme Court's decision to affirm the six-week abortion ban prior to 'Dobbs.' She also takes Governor Kemp to task for "leading" the state to it's last place ranking on healthcare. Did ya hear Jenna Ellis' riveting "performance" earlier today? Let me let ya hear another gem she gave on November 19 2020 so we can both figure out which Jenna Ellis is the

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00:44:30

Explaining Cobb Schools' Partisan Screed

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/23

Things are beyond dire at Dekalb's animal shelter in Chamblee, with Lifeline Anima Project stating they'll need to ramp up euthanizing dogs at more than four times the usual clip to get its population under control - and they'd prefer not to at all, of course. TikTok's "Politics Girl" provides some clarity for us folks on the left concerned about Biden's age (myself included). I'll hear her out if you will. Rep. Teri Anulewicz joined me today to discuss the

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00:44:30

Kemp's Medicaid whiff & another of Don's dominos falls

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/21

It's not been a good week for Governor Brian Kemp, relative to facts in the healthcare realm; I've 1,343 reasons to point out Kemp's failing hundreds of thousands of Georgians. The dominos from Trump's inner circle keep falling, as Fani Willis nabs another guilty plea - and cooperative witness in the process in her bid to take down the former President. President Biden's Oval Office address is an excellent display in "threading the needle" between staunch support for

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00:44:30

Powell's shocking 'about face'

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/20

Former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell - she of the "kraken release" that never was - suddenly and unexpectedly rolled, taking a plea deal this morning. Hear her taking the plea - admitting guilt to six charges - and join me in speculating why. My theory? The treasure trove of recovered emails Coffee County officials appeared to try and bury under the "delete" button. So ... will Georgia election officials finally cave and punt on using compromised election data &

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00:44:32

Another poor showing for Georgia - this time in...

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/19

Hear Fani Willis tell her close friends and top donors about the crap she's having to deal with just for doing her job (in this case, prosecuting Trump's attempts to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results). Hey, speaking of prosecuting thugs, it turns out FBI data bears out an overall drop in the violent crime Republicans want you to believe is skyrocketing since Biden took office. It's actually the opposite. An Emory assistant professor is suspended for allegedly making

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00:44:32

A Misfit, Wish List and Irish Wit

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/18

GOP dysfunction is truly funnier in that - while they flail at getting their sh*t together - they have the gall to blame Democrats for that, too. Georgia's racking up a helluva reserve, and while I'm pretty sure a future Senate candidate will just punt it back to us in some minor tax tweak, I've some tangible, meaningful suggestions that would better lives for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Georgians. Of course, if you want to find some political clarity on the

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00:44:30

New Cop City Polling Is In

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/17

Herschel's holding onto some serious campaign cash, and some Georgia GOPers are sweating his future Senate aspirations, but ... Uhm, there's another Clarence Thomas "conflict of interest" situation flying under the radar. Boop. Boop. New IN-CITY "Cop City" polling should give the mayor and Atlanta Police Foundation the sweats. Palestinian v Hamas conflation & "is Jim Jordan the best they can do?," too.

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00:43:30

Redistricting Report Cards & Athens' DA Dilemma

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/13

Dan Vicuna with Common Cause joined me today to dive into the C.H.A.R.G.E. batch of report cards for each state's redistricting efforts, and - surprise - Georgia got a D. IN fact, 18 of the 20 failing states are GOP-controlled. I'm also joined today by Chris Dowd with Athens Politics Nerd to get a better understanding as to why Deborah Gonzalez, Athens-Clarke district attorney - is the target of Georgia's new GOP-enacted law giving a state board the power to remove a locally-elected

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00:44:29

Getting to know Steve 'the supremacist' Scalise

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/12

Georgia's only openly Jewish General Assembly representative, ⁠Esther Panitch⁠, was certainly emotional over the weekend, on the heels of Hamas' deadly and often grisly terror attack on Israel. She admitted yesterday one of her tweets, targeting "The Squad," was "beneath" her and her office. I'm pleased she came to this realization. BREAKING NEWS that the⁠ U.S. and Qatar are freezing (again) those Iranian assets ⁠the right's been harping about. ⁠Report cards are

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00:44:30

Listening in on the Mayor & a "Major" source of...

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/11

Mayor Andre Dickens' recent appearance on a non-commercial radio station podcast warrants a little scrutiny ,and I have a little to give. :) Of course the public safety training facility is the topic he and the three hosts focus on, but he did make some news in the wake of the Johnny Hollman death & subsequent firing of the APD officer involved, so there's that. I was joined by Rev. James "Major" Woodall, someone I've noticed has been vocally empathetic for the people of

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00:44:29

An Officer (fired) and a Gentle Spin (for Cop City)

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/11

The officer who showed up to handle a fender bender, but wound up tasing Johnny Hollman shortly before Hollman died is now out of a job. That whole situation is somehow rationale for a $90 million police campus, according to Atlanta's mayor. Kinda not digging the use of a civilian casualty by one's own police officer for that. I'm also noticing a note of sympathy for the plight of the Palestinian among the "Stop Cop City" folks, and I've some thoughts & reasons why

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00:44:29

On Israel from someone who's experienced it

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/09

In the aftermath of the despicable attack by Hamas on Israel, the right wing "spin room" opted not to waste a second mourning the dead or keeping "politics at the waters edge;" instead, they coalesced on the false "$6 billion" narrative. Facts be damned. Well, now's a good time to remind them (and ourselves) that their last President likely shared Israeli intelligence with Russia - now an ally of Iran; the Iran most presume worked with Hamas to carry out last

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00:44:29

The spooky abandoned hospital & Trump's nuclear loose...

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/07

Mayor Andre Dickens still doesn't have any takers, it would seem, for the Atlanta Medical Center abandoned by Wellstar a year ago, so he's looking to stop any potential development for another six months to see if something might shake out. One councilmember has an idea - an idea similar in price tag to the public safety training facility. Interesting. Bernard Simelton checks in from the Alabama NAACP to tell me what he and his organization have to do now that his state's congressional

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00:44:29

UGA(ly day) in Court & the GOP deflects

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/05

The University of Georgia and it's athletic association had a pretty cringey day in court and Alabama got a new Congressional map. Nationally, Republicans are blaming Democrats for issues within the Republican party. Say what? Oh, also, what's up with Donald Trump's latest Nazi-esque "poisoning blood" rhetoric?

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00:44:31

Georgia's number one, and also isn't

The Ron Show ·

2023/10/05

Governor Brian Kemp and his economic team took a victory lap presser earlier today to back-slap each other for again earning the distinction of being the "number one" state for business; the problem is, what Georgia's really "number one" for is kowtowing to developers and doling out tax breaks, while key rankings for citizens languish. Stacey Abrams caught a lot of flak in 2022 for pointing that out, but I got her back on this. The big loser (so far) in the Kevin McCarthy

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