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The Ron Show

Welcome to the Ron Show - Atlanta"s only progressive audio platform airing five days a week on AmericaOne Radio, M-F 9-10am. 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 cat-dad liberal realtor & talk show host. Dime a dozen, right?

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00:43:28

Civility - "a tool of fearful leaders" - won't save us.

The Ron Show ·

2025/10/03

There's an ask, since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, for a return to "civility" in our political discourse. I'm here to tell you that "civility" is a luxury for only the privileged, and it's more obvious now than ever. When Elon Musk is calling for the shuttering of the Southern Poverty Law Center and he and FBI director Kash Patel see the Anti-Defamation League as a hate group, they're looking to silence arbiters of bias and hatred instead of the amplifiers

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00:45:25

Who caves in this shutdown is up to us: so which side...

The Ron Show ·

2025/10/02

Go figure, a dysfunctional, MAGA-controlled federal government has ground to a halt; while there's a cynical explanation as to why the Trump White House and his Congressional bootlickers are okay with this, courtesy of 'Politics Girl' Leigh McGowan, a New York Times op/ed puts it plainly: "The American people deserve and ought to demand better options."I'm actually not so sure; the American people voted for this because "trans people!!!" But that's not to say

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00:44:29

What happened to Bill Maher? Reviewing his 'Homan'...

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/30

Admittedly, I've been a little distracted the last couple weeks, caring for an ailing cat and being a part of a caretaking team for a dear friend. Both passed away over the weekend so I'm just diving back into some things I've missed of late, one of them being the Tom Homan sit down on "Real Time With Bill Maher."On the one hand, I'm a little baffled by Maher's recent display of anti-wokeness, and on the other, he's an aging white cynical comedian who's no

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00:44:29

Defending educators' 1st Amendment rights | Ruwa's...

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/29

Author ("Southern. Gay. Teacher." and "Gay Arab American and Middle Eastern Men") and former Fulton County educator Randy Fair joined the show today to share with me what prompted him to write an op/ed in the South Florida Sun Sentinel (paywall ... wah wahhh) defending teachers' free speech rights. I read the op/ed for the audience prior to the conversation, so you won't need to pay to read it.In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination, school systems throughout

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00:44:30

'Haughty & arrogant' finger-wagging from moderates...

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/27

Atlanta Journal Constitution op/ed columnist Bill Torpy penned a piece in early September finger-wagging at progressives over word choice and his perceiving them to be 'haughty and arrogant,' owing to their 'moral superiority' as a reason the Democratic Party is losing elections and the voter registration game, lately. He cited the recently resigned CDC official Dr. Demetre Daskalakis' resignation letter and his use of the term "pregnant people" as an example. Third Way

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00:44:29

My conversation with a foul-mouthed Christian comic...

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/26

Sterling Hill - aka "Sterling Thrill" - is a dear friend of mine. We go back to 2009 when he entered a contest to be a radio deejay and came in second place (though he eventually got the gig). Sterling and I not only worked together, we've been friends from the jump. One thing we once had in common was a comfortable ability to discuss our atheism. Here's the thing: Sterling found Jesus and has been a strong, passionate voice for Christianity ever since, some of it through his work

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00:44:34

"Ah-see-two-morons" trashing acetaminophen | Kimmel's...

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/25

Well, Georgia Democrats didn't snatch a state Senate seat from the GOP last night, despite their candidate - Debra Shigley - outpacing 2024 numbers, but liberals needn't dismay. Her 9-point improvement on 2024 results for her party bode well for 2026, and with the majority of the GOP seeming to be in no hurry to release the Epstein files and with the economy in malaise - and by MAGA's own admission not expecting to improve for a year or more - there should be optimism for

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00:44:29

Is Geoff Duncan's appeal 'electoral white flight?'

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/24

Geoff Duncan's entry into the Georgia Democratic Party's gubernatorial field for 2026 has drawn a lot ... of criticism, skeptics, and yes, some signs of support. Former Gwinnett County Democratic Party chair Bianca Keaton isn't having it. The founder and chief strategist at The Center of Mass, now a candidate consultant, likens Duncan's entry and those who support him to 'electoral white flight.'She joined me to elaborate.Also, joining me, fresh off his one-on-one with Duncan

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00:44:29

A high-profile run-up to the Tuesday Georgia run-off

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/23

It's election day in Georgia's 21st Senate district and Democrat Debra Shigley has enjoyed a lot of support for her campaign to wrest a red-leaning suburban Atlanta enclave from the GOP.High-profile names like Senator Jon Ossoff, Representative Lucy McBath, former gubernatorial (at least we believe she's still 'just' a former candidate, for now) Stacey Abrams, DNC chair Ken Martin, current (Democrat and ...) gubernatorial candidate Geoff Duncan, one of his combatants in former

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00:44:29

Everything (almost) no one's talking about re: Tyler...

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/18

My roommate and I are pretty different people in a number of ways, not the least of which is his grasp of (and my indifference to) things like DragonCon, cosplay, online gameplay and social interaction outside of traditional social media. His interest in a lot of that, along with is being a regular listener of the LawFare podcast "Rational Security" lead him to recommending a recent episode: "The 'Ten Years, Still Off-Key' Edition." In that episode's first 20 minutes

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00:44:29

Rural GA's 'FAFO' on labor/delivery options | A...

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2025/09/18

A Lavonia, Georgia hospital getting out of the 'labor and delivery' business leaves four counties and those pregnant living in them an hour or more away from a still-functioning L&D facility. This is largely the result of Medicaid funding cuts (and I'd argue, Georgia never accepting Medicaid expansion funding since 2010). This is where I mention all four counties going overwhelmingly for Trump in 2024, 2020 and 2016. This doesn't occur in a "statewide race" vacuum,

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00:44:30

Giving voice to the trans community | Who is Duncan...

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/17

Chanel Haley, deputy executive director at Georgia Equality, is frankly one of the lucky few in the trans community. Despite the long odds for navigating adolescence, coming out, transitioning and finding her way towards earning an education and occupational success, Chanel still faced bias and oppression along the way.She joined me today to weigh in on casually-made anti-trans statements made the Sunday before Charlie Kirk's assassination by two conservative pundits on FOX-5 / WAGA-TV's

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00:44:32

Social media not 'cancer;' the hate it spreads is

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/16

On Sunday's 'Meet the Press,' Utah governor Spencer Cox likened social media to a 'cancer' on society, putting a lot of blame on social networking for gun deaths in the U.S. Listen, I know the inherent ills social media can deliver with swiftness, but he's focusing on the "circulatory system" delivering the tumors (bigotry, homophobia, misogyny, racism) and not the hatred itself. That troubles me.The right's reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk embodies

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00:44:30

A Nick Fuentes 'groyper' meets Eric Erickson's...

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/13

Wednesday night, from the Oval Office, we were told "the left" is the source of all that's poisonous in our political discourse, ironically by one of the most venomous vitriolic pursed lips in American political history. Fast-forward to today when we awaken to those lips flapping on 'Fox & Friends' to reveal that "we have him," the shooting suspect in the Charlie Kirk assassination. What's noteworthy about that visit to the curved couch was when he had the

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00:44:28

What Kirk's assassination + our reaction says about...

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/12

Charlie Kirk was a lightning rod ... of energy for the conservative base at the younger demographic the GOP sorely needed help with ... of controversy for those he targeted with his rhetoric ... and now, his assassination has exposed deep rifts within our society, empathetically, morally, politically and religiously.I, myself, didn't have a cogent response to share with anyone - for hours Wednesday afternoon. What I knew before he was killed hasn't changed much: he was anti-gay, vehemently

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00:44:31

Black women suffer most in Trump's economic swoon

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/12

CNN's Victor Blackwell hosted a panel last week to discuss the canary in the coal mine - a notable rise in unemployment among not only black Americans, but black women. On that panel: Black Voters Matter Fund co-founder LaTosha Brown, former GOP Georgia Senate candidate Stephanie Donegan, and Capital B national editor Dalila Paul. First, let's applaud that CNN fielded an all-black and female panel to discuss an issue impacting black women. You'd think it obvious to do that, but cable TV

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00:44:30

ICE raid exposes US & GOP shortcomings on immigration...

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/10

All the work (to his credit!) that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has done to make Georgia a green energy and electric vehicle manufacturing hub are slowly being undone by Trump 2.0 white nationalist tendencies. The recent Hyundai raid in southeast Georgia performed by ICE was launched to snag Latin American migrant workers but also - oops - ensnared Korean and Japanese visa waiver employees, putting strain on U.S.-Korean and Georgia-Korean relations. It also creates an unnecessary impediment towards

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00:44:27

Local TV pundits spew anti-trans rhetoric without...

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/09

Atlanta's Sunday TV talk diet includes one local program - WAGA-TV/ Fox 's "The Georgia Gang." I watch it occasionally and happened to have some time Sunday to catch the most recent episode, and I'm furious but glad I caught it.Two pundits - Phil Kent and Martha Zoller - notably the right-wing participants, spewed anti-trans swipes, which I suppose should be unsurprising. That they did so with zero pushback from the show's moderator or the two left-wing participants,

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00:44:29

Warnock to RFK: "You are a hazard to the health of...

The Ron Show ·

2025/09/06

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was summoned to a Senate finance subcommittee hearing and was met with bipartisan skewering. The most notable moments being RFK being cornered into explaining his anti-vax actions as head of HHS while also glomming on about his boss' (Donald Trump) "Operation Warp Speed" by GOP Senator Bill Cassidy, and Rev. Senator Raphael Warnock flatly stating that he is "a hazard to the health of the American people." It isn't just the man in the office; it's

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00:44:30

Debra's not done: my chat with Georgia's 2025...

The Ron Show ·

2025/08/29

She out-performed Kamala Harris by 13 points and the last candidate to try to win her state Senate district in November by ten percentage points, too. That could be a harbinger of things to come in 2026 (quick, Donald; get on the phone to Kemp to work on those maps!) but it also speaks to candidate quality as voters came out for Debra Shigley in the special election to fill the 21st Senate district seat vacated by Brandon Beach. It isn't just about what the voters did, though; it's about the

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