{"id":12840,"date":"2018-12-28T17:33:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T01:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12840"},"modified":"2018-12-29T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T19:19:49","slug":"trumps-true-colors-build-a-wall-or-confront-the-opioid-epidemic-bradcast-12282018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12840","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s True Colors: Build a Wall or Confront the Opioid Epidemic: ‘BradCast’ 12\/28\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, you have me as your host – Angie Coiro – as Brad and Desi catch some breath over the holiday.<\/p>\n

In our first few minutes, stay with me while I connect some dots: Trump’s wall demands, and the opioid death toll in America. What he’s willing to spend on those two issues tell us a lot about him: time, money, interest, commitment, and especially honesty. It’s a bit numbers-heavy, but worth the time, I think.<\/p>\n

Robert Mercer is stepping back into the shadows, putting out less to buy elections and reportedly losing influence as a result. Then the latest in the eternal riddle: why the hell does anybody trust Wells Fargo with their money?<\/p>\n

We take a good long look at abortion today – starting with the latest from Ohio – and tomorrow, as ROBIN MARTY<\/b> discusses her new book, A Handbook for Post-Roe America<\/i><\/a>. She makes a good case that it doesn’t really matter if Roe gets overturned in court; we’re fighting a system that’s biting away at it so efficiently and relentlessly, we need to prepare anyway.<\/p>\n

And we wrap with the second part of my interview with JAMES HATCH<\/b>, Navy Seal and survivor of the effort to free Bowe Bergdahl in Afganistan. He tells his story – and that of his charity, Spike’s K9 Fund<\/i><\/a>, in his book Touching the Dragon<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On today’s BradCast, you have me as your host – Angie Coiro – as Brad and Desi catch some breath over the holiday. In our first few minutes, stay with me while I connect some dots: Trump’s wall demands, and the opioid death toll in America. What he’s willing to spend on those two issues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,52,239,675,811,469,19,499,299,479,390,930,200,451,1123,1129,261,23,148,724,215,868,792,47,313,53,736,873],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-66","category-ap","category-barack-obama","category-bradcast","category-civil-disobedience","category-clarence-thomas","category-cnn","category-coal","category-democrats","category-donald-trump","category-economy","category-election-2018","category-environment","category-epa","category-gender-equality","category-ice","category-immigration","category-nbc","category-new-york-times","category-oceans","category-pbs","category-steve-bannon","category-steve-king","category-texas","category-us-supreme-court","category-washington-post","category-water","category-wells-fargo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12840"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}