Estate Sale: the selling out of American democracy Podcast
1) We need a vaccine for dumb f*ckery
Brad and Laurie are looking for a cure to the dumb fuckery that remains Republican lawmakers and their voters. The GOP continues to fight mask mandates and COVID vaccines all while pretending it was a...Show More
2) Brad and Laurie are not fans of the GOP's Southern Baptist Convention
White evangelicals, dominated by Southern Baptists, are a primary demographic within the Republican party. And an unhealthy majority of Southern Baptists are Republican. Brad and Laurie discuss just w...Show More
3) Being Black in America, part 2: 'I've always known about racism'
More than 150 years ago, on June 19, 1865, the last group of enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom due to the Emancipation Proclamation issued two-and-a-half years earlier. That date has a...Show More
4) Just bullsh*t in a binder
It has been months since Laurie and Brad hosted a show together, so enjoy this somewhat disjointed but highly entertaining podcast catching you up on the latest cheers and jeers from Washington.And do...Show More
5) Being Black in America, part 1: You call this progress?
In this first of a multi-part series, Laurie talks with two former students about what it is really like to grow up Black in today's America. While the Black Lives Matter movement gained momentum and ...Show More
6) Is that hope we feel? Yes.
Laurie sits down with David Quick, a former journalist-turned-candidate-turned-climate-activist, to talk about everything from Trump's Capitol Insurrection to President Biden's climate agenda (thanks ...Show More
7) The worst U.S. president in American history
In honor of Presidents Day, we recite 250 reasons why Donald J. Trump is undoubtedly the worst U.S. president this country has ever seen, beginning with the teeny tiny fact that he encouraged the insu...Show More
8) An historian and a philosopher walk into a bar. Just kidding. The philosopher drops some logic.
Brad back solo, this time talking philosophy, logic and critical race theory with Scott Coley. Scott has a master's in theology from Notre Dame, a PhD in philosophy from Purdue University, and te...Show More
9) That's 'President Biden' and 'Former President Trump' to you
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have taken the oath, and now America can get back to being a democracy while Trump goes to jail (we hope).Brad and Laurie note that the contrast be...Show More
10) Are we doomed? Perhaps. Brad sits down with fellow historian Lance Janda to discuss our fate
Hi. Welcome to Estate Sale. Brad here, trying to process last week’s insurrection, or what some people are calling a “self coup.” Whatever the name, it continues to take a toll on all o...Show More