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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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00:42:00

The Face of Gun Fetishism: The Shellshocked Child

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/29

Wait, so now right wing pundits want to disarm trans people - meaning the Second Amendment they fawn over doesn't apply to trans people? Isn't this LITERALLY "second class citizenship?" But does this surprise anyone, anymore? Republicans are like bigotry locusts, moving from one marginalized minority to the next when the clock expires on their previous target. Picking just on gay people doesn't poll well anymore, so they've moved on to just the trans community. The

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00:43:59

The right's TRANSitioning from guns ... of course.

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/28

I make it no secret I'm not a fan of Erick Erickson. The man's divisive and lacking in self-awareness on a grand scale - as most right wing pundits tend to be. Some of his most recent anti-trans rhetoric, however can't go unnoticed here. As we're learning more about the Nashville school shooting killer, Eric wants to play the false equivalency game while feigning innocence in doing some mis-characterizing of the trans community in the process, and I'm here to call him out on

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00:44:01

Will It EVER Be About the Guns?

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/28

Between severe weather rocking rural Mississippi, Alabama and even part of Georgia and today's mass school shooting in Nashville, Georgia legislative chicanery took a backseat for a bit. Last week, the United Nations IPCC report - a pretty conservative commission, by the way - gave us a dire outlook. Can we correlate these "historic" tornado events? Well, it's not easy to but it's hard to ignore them in conjunction with all the other climate extremes being seen throughout the

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00:45:01

Lotta "Cop City" Talk

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/24

Lots of 'Cop City' coverage today. New details coming out about the violent & deadly clash that killed an Atlanta forest defender, plus Dekalb County's shutting down nearby Entrenchment Creek Park, citing "traps." Re-sharing yesterday's interview with environmental journalist Adam Federman to discuss the curious FBI hyper-scrutiny of environmental advocacy orgs even LOOSELY connected (in any way) to "Cop City" protests - eve if it's just an Twitter follow. A little legislative wrap-up and meet

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00:44:04

Why the FBI is surveilling "save the park" groups

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/23

First, something fun: the folks at Wander North Georgia have their "March madness" bracket out - sixteen of the best state parks in North Georgia to visit. I cast my votes - and some were tough calls to make - so feel free to do the same. More importantly, try to visit as many of them as possible! We learned today that Governor Brian Kemp - now in his second and final term as governor and free of repercussion - went ahead and blithely signed SB 140, making gender-affirming care illegal for minors in

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00:43:57

"Let's Bully Trans Kids Then Play Some Kickball!"

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/22

Believe it or not, as contentious as the rhetoric was between Republicans and Democrats in the SB140 (anti-trans "gender-affirming care" ban), a big group of legislators and staffers still thought it would be cool to leave that Senate vote for a kickball game between the House and Senate. Poor optics. I've an idea, though: how about we get these two teams to take on a couple of LGBTQ+ Atlanta-area kickball teams, instead? It's CLEAR some conservatives need to hang out with people they're not used to

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00:43:59

ATL wants to audit MARTA, Ga GOP wants to harm...

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/21

After a vote last night to audit MARTA, Atlanta city council members went before the media today to explain why. MARTA released a jaw-dropping statement, by the way. This line in particular: "The best thing the politicians on council can do for their constituents in the City of Atlanta is to get out of the way ..." is audacious! We'll go over legislative measures SB 233 (school vouchers) and SB140 (trans youth gender-affirming care ban) today, before welcoming back Jeff Graham from Georgia Equality

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00:45:01

"A Rising Tide ..." has been proven to work better.

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/20

Don't fall for the bait, liberal friends; don't cancel your plans and call out from work to sit around waiting to see video of DJT being cuffed and stuffed into the back of a squad car, just yet. Just because he says it's soon to happen doesn't mean it'll happen. For all we know, it's just another in a LONG line of campaign fundraising gambits. Lord knows his Truth Social timeline is FILLED with those. Focusing more on what is and isn't moving along in the final week of the Georgia legislative

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00:44:00

The numbers don't lie; but that never stops GOP...

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/17

I'm unsure how metro Augusta conservatives think their poorly-contrived de-annexation idea will fare better under the Gold Dome, but bless those idiots for dreaming. Speaking of, finally some hard data on public opinion and - lo and behold - the PEOPLE of Buckhead didn't want to leave Atlanta OR form their own city - oh and "cop city" isn't at or above 50% with respondents, either. Oops. Our buddy Jay Bookman stings the latest school voucher bill with a steady dose of reality. Confession: I've long

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00:44:03

Brock is "just a dude," but ...

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/16

Professing to be "protecting kids" (just not from guns), Georgia legislative Republicans ignored medical consensus and rammed through SB-140, the bill limiting trans youth medical options. It heads back to the Senate for what's likely to be another party-line vote to the governor's desk. Seems like a good time to revisit my conversation with Brock, a friend of mine who's "just a dude," but wasn't always.

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00:44:00

Where's the Data, Anti-Trans Repubs?

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/14

SB-140, the anti-trans youth "gender affirming care" blocking legislation that made it out of the Senate, was before a House subcommittee today and we go through a big chunk of it. Rest assured, Democrats, your team didn't win the vote, but they sure as heck came away looking knowledgeable on the subject, while their opposition looked completely befuddled and lacking in data. Shocking, right?

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00:44:01

Half here, half not

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/13

Allergies finally got me so today's sort of a half-show with a rerun of my IMPORTANT conversation with White Flag app founder Jonny McCoy on the back half. Sort of a "group project" mental health experience - totally free to download and use. Before then, we'll review some headlines - first the good news: Georgia Power is sending you some money back and all those voter eligibility queries were too much even for Georgia Republicans so there's a move afoot to roll back those MAGA challenges. Also,

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00:44:00

It turns out there ARE locals against 'Cop City' -...

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/10

There's a concerted effort, of late, to show the local involvement to at least ask questions about the future Atlanta Police Training Center - aka "Cop City." Between a local clergy organization and a Thursday night protest at the King Center, maybe now we can stop accepting that most of those against the use of the South River watershed land for the training facility are from "outside Georgia." That whole "outside agitator" rhetoric smacks of Jim Crow-era sneering anyhow. Well, on that note, Eric

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00:44:01

Civil war & guns & whatever "FOOMO" is

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/09

Get your popcorn; that GOP "civil war" me be triggered by NewsMax aiming for Tucker Carlson, who - oh by the way - had some things to say ON January 6, 2021 that are worth revisiting, so I do. I have FOOMO, or maybe it's FOYMO - and I don't want you to miss out on "The Problem with Jon Stewart." So subscribe to Apple TV+ so you can enjoy episodes like last week's. I'll review a bit.

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00:44:01

So much for "limited government;" GOP wants in on...

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/08

Jeff Graham , executive director at Georgia Equality, leads off talking SB140 - a bill seeking to outlaw gender-affirming care for trans youth, along with some discussion about school voucher discrimination & the new Tennessee anti-drag law. It's definitely not a good time to be Tucker Carlson these days, but then he and most Fox News opinion spinners seem to lack self-awareness anyhow. Lastly, the DOJ reports back on Louisville KY police discrimination & acts of overt racism in its

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00:44:01

After "Crossover Day," What's left? Anti-trans &...

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/07

Now that Georgia legislative "crossover day" is behind us, I'll take a look at what bills made it and which ones didn't. Notably, we'll be living "Final Destination" cosplay on state highways with heavier logging trucks, apparently, and Republicans just can't quit trying to starve public education funding by coughing up taxpayer dollars to private (mostly parochial) schools, either. Then there's the anti-trans youth vitriol. Conservatives love bullying the marginalized, don't they? They speak about

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00:44:00

"Cop City" clash ... Buckhead butt-hurt & Georgia's...

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/06

The Atlanta "cop city "argument" features two sides - both seemingly unaware of poor optics. Here's the thing: we're supposed to expect better of "the side of the law," and having cops with long-range rifles on their shoulders walking up to bounce-houses to point those rifles in and wave people out at an otherwise peaceful music festival at a public park is a bade look. That said, burning privately-owned construction equipment, throwing Molotov cocktails and fireworks at anxious and jittery cops is,

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00:44:00

Where We Are on Georgia Education Funding

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/03

Mikayla Arciaga with the Intercultural Development Research Association joins me to start the show, reviewing the hits & misses at the state legislative level so far when it comes to public education. Then, let's be honest: Marjorie Taylor Greene's spokesman said it best: "do you think they (her MAGA base) give a f**k about your bulls**t fact checking?" That tribe seems irreproachable ... not worth the time to try and have persuasive dialogue with because, if decades of Fox News exposures

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00:44:01

Buckhead yea or Buckhead nay?

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/02

Listen as the arguments for and against unfold on the Georgia Senate floor before we get the results as I produced today's show. Also, h/t to Jay Bookman for his piece in today's Georgia Recorder pointing out it's her stupidity that MAKES Marjorie Taylor Greene succeed within the modern GOP. I've the link to that in today's show notes at RonShowATL.com.

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00:44:01

Jalen's bailing' (on NFL media), poor Gabe Sterling...

The Ron Show ·

2023/03/01

Whew; the news we awoke to today from Athens, where Athens-Clarke police laid out their findings that detailed a raucous night of drinking and street-racing on January 15th, leading to two UGA football-related deaths. For potential top NFL draftee Jalen Carter, it was not a good day for him. He bowed out of media time at the combine earlier today, likely because he'd be asked why he fled the scene of the accident only to return 90 minutes later. Next up, there appears to be growing consensus that

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