From experience we know that 50% of our listeners will listen to an actually hard episode.

So you guys can tune out, this is for the people with fucking brains.

This will join. brains.

This will join the sanctions episode down at the bottom of the hlf ones just in the shitter.

You know just something that we you can be proud of

Well, on that note preparing for this episode like it cured all the homesickness I was feeling.

Right.

Living here in France, it made me super glad not to live in your shit-hole country anymore.

So, you know, this is going to be one of those uplifting ones.

Yeah, I grew up in Florida and I will say this doesn't make me miss it.

Well, we're taking you back home again.

Whoa. Yeah, you know, you're taking you back home again. Yeah, you're taking you back home again.

You're listening to A-Lab, my name is Tariq.

In 2018, Florida voters went You're listening to A-Lab, my name is Tarek.

In 2018, Florida voters went to the polls and amended their state constitution to bring their

state in line with much of the modern world.

By allowing most convicted felons in the state the ability to regain their right to vote

after serving their sentences. By 2022, and perhaps the cruelest of his outrage cycle stunts, Florida governor and meme-turned- politician Ron DeSantis

was announcing the arrest of 20 such former felons on new charges, this time a voter

fraud. On this episode of A-Lab, Andy, Charles, Tim, and I explore the long and circuitous pathway

leading from there to here.

I hope you enjoy. A serious man.

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