Live, Laugh, Learn

Georgia On Our Mind

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2233371/open_sms] Nat and Ang are joined by Nichola Hines, President of the League of Women Voters of Georgia. Questions, so many questions. And answers! What's it like to work in a passionate non-partisan organization in a major swing state during one of the most sharply partisan, politically charged, and democracy challenged eras in US history? What's up with the Georgia legislature? BTW, did ya know y'all have a conspiracy theorist in Congress?! Do you suppose democracy will endure in spite of the mess we’re in? Oh, and one more…is there such a thing as hope?  Just in time for election day, join the gals as they ponder a place like Georgia in a time like now with a hero like Nichola Hines. Resources League of Women Voters, Georgia [https://lwvga.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=996555&module_id=506655#principles] Wisconsin Citizenship Voting Requirement Amendment [https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Citizenship_Voting_Requirement_Amendment_(2024)] Georgia Senate Bill 189 [https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20232024/229578] as passed Georgia Senate Bill 189 as opposed by voter rights advocates [https://www.acluga.org/en/issues/voter-rights] Additional Music “Georgia Night Highway,” Yagull Music  “Spirit in the Sunrise,” Jon Presstone AGT and Nat and Ang on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/agenerationalthingpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/natalia_latham/ https://www.instagram.com/angelajoylatham/ [https://www.instagram.com/agenerationalthingpodcast/] Logo by Kara Joy Schrock: https://www.instagram.com/kjreliquaries/ [https://www.instagram.com/kjreliquaries/] Technical consultant, Tim Godby Music (for regular episodes): "Curious Documentary" by Jon Presstone (intro and transitions) "I Feel Fire" by we20fifty (outro)

Truth to Vote

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2233371/open_sms] It’s time to vote and here we all are, bombarded at every turn by misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and outright lies. Nat and Ang to the rescue, with a lot of help from Delany Zimmer, Voter Services Coordinator for the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin. Delany valiantly supports voter efforts to find truth in spite of our poisonous politics and polluted information ecosystem. What’s more, she does so in a key swing state! This makes her a real hero as well as a mighty fine person to interview right now. Resources: “Crime Here is Up and Through the Roof,” [https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/10/us/debate-trump-harris-fact-check/crime-here-is-up-and-through-the-roof?smid=url-share]  Zolan Kanno-Youngs “What the Data Says about Crime in the US, [https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-the-us/]” John Gramlich “Even as Violent Crime Drops, Lawlessness Rises as an Election Issue, [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/us/politics/crime-biden-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb]” Glenn Thrush "AI is Spawning a Flood of Fake Trump and Harris Voices, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2024/ai-voice-detection-trump-harris-deepfake-election/?utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere_trending_now&utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert&location=alert]" Verma, Tenjarla, and Sand C-span [https://www.c-span.org/] Votesmart [https://justfacts.votesmart.org/] Vote411 [https://www.vote411.org/] guides.vote [https://guides.vote/] Additional Music "Thinking Over the Idea," Volodymyr Piddubnyk   "Together we March," Turquoise Moon AGT and Nat and Ang on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/agenerationalthingpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/natalia_latham/ https://www.instagram.com/angelajoylatham/ [https://www.instagram.com/agenerationalthingpodcast/] Logo by Kara Joy Schrock: https://www.instagram.com/kjreliquaries/ [https://www.instagram.com/kjreliquaries/] Technical consultant, Tim Godby Music (for regular episodes): "Curious Documentary" by Jon Presstone (intro and transitions) "I Feel Fire" by we20fifty (outro)

Trial and Error: The Courtroom Battle that Still Divides Us

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2233371/open_sms] In 1925, John Scopes, a high school biology teacher in rural Tennessee, was indicted for violating a new state law against teaching evolution. The record of his trial is a textbook all its own for today. A century later the very issues that played out in a small-town courthouse––from politics to religion and everything in between––still divide Americans. Join Natalia and Angela as they grapple with the engaging, sometimes frightening, and always illuminating experience of reading Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation, by Brenda Wineapple.  Resources: Brenda Wineapple Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/648098/keeping-the-faith-by-brenda-wineapple/] Associated Press news “The Taliban publish vice laws that ban women's voices and bare faces in public [https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-vice-virtue-laws-women-9626c24d8d5450d52d36356ebff20c83]” Vox.com How the Republican Party went from Lincoln to Trump [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8VOM8ET1WU] Vox.com From white supremacy to Barack Obama: The history of the Democratic Party [https://www.vox.com/2016/11/7/13551342/democrats-history-hillary-clinton-obama] Alexandra Alter “From School Librarian to Activist: ‘The Hate Level and the Vitriol Is Unreal [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/books/amanda-jones-librarian-book-bans.html]” Transition Music: Humans Win “Sunshine Strum” Volodymyr Piddubnyk “Minimal documentary background music”  AGT and Nat and Ang on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/agenerationalthingpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/natalia_latham/ https://www.instagram.com/angelajoylatham/ [https://www.instagram.com/agenerationalthingpodcast/] Logo by Kara Joy Schrock: https://www.instagram.com/kjreliquaries/ [https://www.instagram.com/kjreliquaries/] Technical consultant, Tim Godby Music (for regular episodes): "Curious Documentary" by Jon Presstone (intro and transitions) "I Feel Fire" by we20fifty (outro)

An Educated Public

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2233371/open_sms]      The one thing most Americans agree on besides apple pie is that November 5, 2024 is a very big day in US history. What are the issues we should be reflecting on as we choose our national, state, and local leaders? Does it really all come down to the economy (stupid)? Or Project 2025? Or reproductive rights?      How about this one? Educational equity? Now there's an election issue you don't hear nearly enough about. And it's nothing short of a pillar of democracy!! So in the lead-up to the election, the gals are learning about learning, about thinking, about probing beyond the headlines and scary news talk that has way too much to do with ... pets?!      First up in the queue, die-hard nerds Nat and Ang are joined by some stiff nerd competition! Dr. Chloe Latham Sikes [https://www.idra.org/staff/chloe-latham-sikes-phd/] is an expert on educational policy and Deputy Director of Policy for IDRA [https://www.google.com/search?q=IDRA&oq=IDRA&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyDwgAEEUYORiDARixAxiABDINCAEQABiDARixAxiABDIHCAIQABiABDIKCAMQABixAxiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIJCAkQLhgKGIAE0gEIMjYyNmowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8], a non-profit organization committed to educational equity. She offers some mind-blowing, gob-smacking truths about what is happening to and in schools across the country and what that means to all of us who care about a healthy democracy. Additional music:  "Golden Years," by Yagull Music "New Beginnings," by Humans Win AGT and Nat and Ang on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/agenerationalthingpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/natalia_latham/ https://www.instagram.com/angelajoylatham/ [https://www.instagram.com/agenerationalthingpodcast/] Logo by Kara Joy Schrock: https://www.instagram.com/kjreliquaries/ [https://www.instagram.com/kjreliquaries/] Technical consultant, Tim Godby Music (for regular episodes): "Curious Documentary" by Jon Presstone (intro and transitions) "I Feel Fire" by we20fifty (outro)

Live, Laugh, Learn

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2233371/open_sms] The gals are back from hiatus and ready to take on the world. But not before they inter-generationally process their respective summer school lessons and what's in the fall syllabus. Consider this episode your back-to-school primer, just in time for the coming apocalypse, or at least for the 2024 elections.  Transition music: "Sunshine Strum" by Humans Win AGT and Nat and Ang on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/agenerationalthingpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/natalia_latham/ https://www.instagram.com/angelajoylatham/ [https://www.instagram.com/agenerationalthingpodcast/] Logo by Kara Joy Schrock: https://www.instagram.com/kjreliquaries/ [https://www.instagram.com/kjreliquaries/] Technical consultant, Tim Godby Music (for regular episodes): "Curious Documentary" by Jon Presstone (intro and transitions) "I Feel Fire" by we20fifty (outro)