Notes for 8:00 PM EST. Go to www.ochelli.com to listen.

“Mike Swanson is a local historian in the town he lives in and has written an interesting book on the subject. Chuck and Mike discussed the wider concept of what Chuck thinks is just about a separate country from the rest of the continental United States. The southeastern states have been on a different path from their counterparts in the North. This is a very interesting historical analysis and may explain many conditions from the civil war era and today,” writes Chuck Ochelli.

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JP Sottile joined the discussion in the second hour and gave us all a lesson in Why Trump’s lies work, and we think no one will enjoy learning it. The Oil and plastic planet is not going to continue to accept our actions either.

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