Roundtown Revival

Election Apocalypse 2024

In this episode, Logan and Jules breakdown their thoughts on the 2024 election and what they think that the Democratic party should learn, but probably won't.

RR: Revived #001 - We Have Issues With Issue 1

In this first episode back, The People's Himbo and Jules discuss Issue 1 in detail as early voting has begun. They cover in the episode what conservatives and pro-Issue 1 folks are saying, but they also try and counter some of these talking points with their takes. They also briefly discuss a few other topics as well towards the beginning. Jules recently finished Destiny of the Republic, a book about James Garfield which lead to him discovering that Garfield was called "The Education President" because of his strong support for education and laying the groundwork for the Department of Education. Link to Pop and Locke podcast episode covering Disco Elysium [https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/pop-locke/disco-elysium] Link to article reporting study where number of students using vouchers come from wealthier families [https://news.wosu.org/2023-06-05/school-vouchers-now-going-to-more-wealthy-private-school-students?fbclid=IwAR2LR73xrUNWCUYjVpWozDLf6CZpalvixJX-QXh7yumP664wA66DJigCvBM]

Episode 2-1 Here Comes the Circus

In this episode, we update the listeners on a few things  that we talked about in the last episode. Especially updates regarding HJR 6 and Erin's Law.   We cover how the bill to protect the Ohio Constitution was resubmitted by Brian Stewart with some added changes that may have lost some support.   We also cover the recent Ohio House Speaker drama, as Democrats and Republicans worked together to make Jason Stephens the Speaker.   Ultimately, we hope that this means that there is a shifting change in Ohio and a rejection of culture wars for compromises to end the political circus and progress together.

Episode 18 - Ohio Power Grab?

In this episode, we talk about proposed changes to Ohio's Constitution that would make it so that a 60% threshold needs to be met in order for the ballot initiative to pass. There are a lot of groups across the political spectrum that have been opposed to this change. Since we recorded this episode, a substituted version of the bill has been put forward which also requires a 60% threshold on GA approved amendments to the constitution, not just to citizen led ballot initiatives. Also post recording, Jules has listened to Brian Stewart's debate in front of the committee. In that debate, Brian Stewart mentions that he is the sole person who came up with the idea for the bill. Jules speculated, and may personally still believe that Brian may have been influenced by Center for Christian Value or Ohio Right to Life. Similar to how conservatives speculating Planned Parenthood being behind Erin's Law despite Erin's objections to those claims in testimony. Brian also mentions in the debate that we had a bipartisan commission to research this topic and they recommended a change to 55%. This is true. They also recommended that ballot initiatives be done on even years, when national and state races occur leading to bigger voter turnouts. Jules notes that he'd be willing to compromise for 55% and requiring initiatives only being placed on the ballot on even numbered years. It's also why he still objects the Ohio GOP's attempt to push this through on May 2023's ballot. Clarification on joking about groups/people being opposed to Erin's Law. I've told someone else before that their opposition to such a bill was suspect to me. The bill is designed to empower kids to have the ability to report people who may be assaulting them. And that someone is likely someone close to them. No joke; you can go search online to see people like youth pastors, clergy, police officers, teachers, scout leaders, family members, and other people that generally are given or have some authority over children abuse kids. We also briefly touch on the change proposed to the Ohio Board of Education, as well as, briefly touching on the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs.

Episode 17 - Qult 45

In this episode, we discuss some polling from Emerson College poll. The weird cult-like speech from Trump's rally for JD Vance in Youngstown and Christian Nationalism with the Watchman Decree.  We also briefly mention the furry panic.