News With My Fiancé - Thursday, September 28th, 2023

Season 3, Episode 24,   Sep 28, 2023, 08:16 PM

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Intro music and Podcast edited by Kyle Gilmer

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Host Check In
  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY DJ AMBUSH!!!!!! How will you be celebrating tonight? 
  • Candace Avalos enters the City Council Chat *reggae horns* for District 1
  • Do you believe in magic? Today’s theme is Make Believe! 
LEAD STORIES RUNDOWN
  • LOCAL
    • (00:53:24) Target is closing 3 stores here in Portland, will the other 15 be enough for us to get by with Black Friday and Cyber Monday around the corner?
  • (00:29:51) Measure 110 found innocent in raising drug overdoses, can we stop playing now? What will the people for the people that don’t live in Portland do with this, brand-new tale as old as time information? 
  • NATIONAL
    • (01:12:59) A cop kills a person of color and gets away with it. I know what you’re thinking, how is this news right? RIGHT?!

Playlist: List the songs played on today’s show

  • Glow - Kelis ft Raphael Saadiq
  • Palm Trees (Motez Remix) - Goldlink & Motez 
  • I’m Beamin - Lupe Fiasco 
TEXTS FROM THIS EPISODE:
  1. (00:07:56) Happy Birthday MORGAN!!! XOXO- Rudes
  2. (00:08:09) No wonder I like ambush he's a fellow libra. Scales of justice baby
  3. (00:08:18) Happy birthday Ambush!!!! Sorry, sudden arrival of rainy season has us tired and slower 🥲
  4. (00:10:16) Good morning, happy birthday ambush Glad you share it with my grandbaby- Jon
  5. (00:10:53) Today is my 69th birthday, so happy birthday to everyone!
  6. (00:14:53) Ambush just wants scrimp. Dist 9
  7. (00:22:04) HAPPY BIRTHDAY POPDADDY
  8. (00:28:51) COOOOOO BRAAAAAAAA!!!!
  9. (00:28:58) I lost my Snake Mountain to a house fire! And I'm a Libra! Are Ambush and I TWINS?! -RUDOOOOOO  
  10. (00:29:10) Coming in with the vintage Xray references... rip the quick 6. But let me say, you've always been the only "news with (blank)" of my heart ;)
  11. (00:53:02) It bottles the mind!
  12. (01:06:56) Per capita violent crime rate for Portland: 7.49 per 1000 of population. Mobile, Alabama: 27.94 per 1000 of population
  13.  (01:21:14) So maybe good riddance to global companies that export the local money to somewhere else and have 6 year olds make their shoes? Maybe that opens up opportunity for local businesses?
Don’t let the individuals distract you from the systems
Poverty is a policy choice
People Over Profits
Power to the People
None of us are free until we are all free