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Start Me Up with Kimberley A. Johnson
Hosted by blogger and author Kimberley A. Johnson.'Start Me Up' isn't just any other podcast. I'm willing to call BS when I see it and I don't care if it's coming from a rightwinger or a self-professed bleedingheart liberal. I'm not always politically correct and I'm a huge fan of loose talk and salty language. Sarcasm is guaranteed and political correctness will be at a minimum. This podcast is for anyone who wants to listen to compelling conversations with a variety of guests about current…
Episodes
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Kurt Bardella
Kurt Bardella is an advisor to the DCCC and a contributor to The Los Angeles Times as well as USA Today. He's a former Republican who's now a Democrat. We…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Grant Stern of Occupy Democrats
Grant Stern is the author of Meet The Candidates 2020, he's the Executive Editor of Occupy Democrats, a radio broadcaster and he writes two national news…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Fred Wellman (Lincoln Project)
Fred Wellman is the Executive Director of The Lincoln Project. We talked about what changed, what hasn't, and how they will proceed moving forward. Fred and I…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Brooklyn Dad Defiant
Majid M. Padelan A.K.A. Brooklyn Dad Defiant is back!. He's the author of The Liddle'est President and he's funny, authentic, and a great conversationalist…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Allison Gill - Host of Mueller, She Wrote
Allison Gill is the host of Mueller, She Wrote, and The Daily Beans podcasts. She's a veteran, Ph.D., and a former federal government executive, she’s a…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Greg Olear
Greg Olear is back! Topics: What may or may not be going on with Merrick Garland and the DOJ's choice not to go after criminals during the Trump presidency…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Noel Casler
Comedian Noel Casler is back! I absolutely adore him. Topics: A case against Trump corp is not enough, prosecutors need to go after the man--but will they?…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Christian Picciolini
Christian Picciolini is an award-winning television producer, a public speaker, author of the book Breaking Hate Confronting The New Culture Of Extremism…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Jody Hamilton
Jody Hamilton is back! Topics discussed: Will Wisselberg flip? Will Trump go to prison? Clyburn said they may have to subpoena; the climate is freaking…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Actor Jeff Kober
Jeff Kober is an actor, a Vedic meditation coach, and a photographer. You've seen him in dozens of movies and TV shows including China Beach, The Walking Dead…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Steph Walton
Steph is Back! We catch up and talk about how COVID affected us; we get into rape culture; we discuss women's hormones and how the stress of the political…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Kirk Acevedo
Actor Kirk Acevedo is back for another rousing political conversation. Topics: Democrats have to be unified if we want to beat the fascists, and Kirk…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Christopher Bouzy
Christopher Bouzy is a serial entrepreneur, software engineer, and political maven and he’s the founder and CEO of Bot Sentinel. It’s a free platform developed…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Ben Cohen
The Banter's Ben Cohen and I touched on a variety of issues but the overall theme was about the current state of democracy and where it's headed. We still have…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Author/Lawyer Teri Kanefield
Teri Kanfield returns and today we talked about taking a reasonable pragmatic view of what's happening in American politics. Because Republicans are breaking…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Jared Yates Sexton
Jared is a political analyst and author. Today we talked about the real threat of fascism in the United States and how all of us have been gaslit by the GOP…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Anti-Racism Educator Tim Wise
Antiracism educator and author Tim Wise returns! Topics: systematic racism; white supremacy and our current government; the influence our (diverse) pop culture…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Tara Dublin
Tara Dublin is a writer, a former DJ, a voiceover actress and known on Twitter for being an in-your-face badass activist. She's also a contributor to the…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Sarah Wood
Writer Sarah Wood returns! Show Topics: Trump and COVID19 changed America forever; Republicans want to kill democracy and Democratic leaders need a more…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Jody Hamilton
Jody Hamilton, the host of the From The Bunker podcast is back! We had some fun chatting it up but we did fit in some political conversation about COVID and…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Amanda Sowards
Writer and friend Amanda Sowards is back and today we talk about COVID, single-payer healthcare, abortion, gay/slut-shaming and some fun stuff, too. See…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Greg Olear
Greg Olear is back! His must-read article Tinker, Tailor Mobster, Trump talks about Donald Trump being a confidential informant! What a read! We discussed that…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Artist Adam Stone
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Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Ben Cohen - Editor of 'The Banter' Substack
Ben Cohen, the editor of The Banter, joins me to talk about politics and what it was like to have a toddler during COVID. (In case: this show was recorded in…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Election Analyst Rachel Bitecofer
Rachel Bitecofer is a political scientist and an elections analyst. She's also a badass. Topics: The discouraging Census news; what Democrats have to do to win…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Greg Olear
Greg Olear is back! YAY! Topics: Some people who are afraid of side effects are skipping the second dose of the vaccine; Biden's first 100 days (he's kicking…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Author/Lawyer Teri Kanefield
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Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Sarah Wood
Show Topics: The trial of Derek Chauvin came to a close; cops are still murdering unarmed black Americans; the debate over "Defund" the police slogan…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Eric Garland
Eric Garland is an Intelligence analyst and strategist. He's the host of the Game Theory Today Podcast and we had a lot of fun! Topics: Traitors are going to…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Sex Positive OB/GYN Dr. Leah Torres
Dr. Leah Torres is a sex-positive OB/Gyn promoting high-quality care and evidence-based medicine. Topics: Sex positivity; the best approach when talking to…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Jody Hamilton
Jody Hamilton, the host of the From The Bunker podcast is back! Topics: Covid vaccines, Los Angeles, earthquakes, kittens, Matt Gaetz and the future of the…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Chris Hahn
Chris Hahn is a progressive pundit and the host of the Aggressive Progressive. He also hosts a syndicated radio show and works as a political consultant and…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Democratic Candidate & Actor Bruno Amato
Bruno Amato has been a working actor for the past 20 years and is a proud member of the SAG/AFTRA union. He's a Democrat running against Kevin McCarthy in…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Melissa Walker
Melissa Walker is an author of 10 novels for young adults and children. A former magazine editor, she now enjoys gathering people together to share stories…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Jared Yates Sexton
Jared is a political analyst and author. We had a productive conversation about white supremacy and how it's taken over the Republican Party--and how abortion…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Andrew Laufer, Esq
Andrew Laufer is a Civil Rights attorney and he specializes in Police Brutality, False Arrest, Malicious Prosecution. Topics: There's a decent chance Trump…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Amanda Sowards
Writer Amanda Sowards returns for more lively discussion on the world's most pressing issues. (yes, I'm sarcastic.) Topics: Things are opening up, there's…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: John Pavlovitz
John Pavlovitz is a writer, pastor, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. In the past four years, his blog Stuff That Needs To Be Said has reached a…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Brooklyn Dad Defiant
Majid M. Padelan A.K.A. Brooklyn Dad Defiant is back!. He's the author of The Liddle'est President and he's funny, authentic, and a great conversationalist…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Sarah Wood
Sarah Wood is back and we had fun! Topics: Is it cancel culture or consequence culture? Either way, it is capitalism at work. What will happen to the…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Cheri Jacobus
Cheri Jacobus is a nationally recognized political strategist who used to be a moderate Republican but switched to Independent when Trump got the Republican…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: David T-Rex Ferguson
David and I talk some politics but our conversation is more about two friends chatting about life. My mood is darker than usual because getting a COVD vaccine…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Amanda Sowards
Amanda Sowards is a writer and she's also a friend! Today's topics: Amanda has received both COVID vaccine doses and described her experience; Donald is having…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonAbortion Debate With Libertarian Joe Walsh
Joe is an anti-choice conservative Libertarian. I am a pro-choice progressive Democrat. In the name of unity, we will discuss abortion and try to find common…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonTeri Kanefield
Author/Lawyer Teri Kanefield is back and she convinced me that it was better there were no witnesses during the Senate trial. I was disappointed but now I…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonNick Knudsen - Demcast
Nick Knudsen returns! He's the Executive Director of DemCast USA--a grassroots organization created to help Democratic down-ballot candidates win. It's a great…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonGreg Olear
Greg Olear, the author of Dirty Rubles, returns for another entertaining and informative conversation. Greg is currently writing a five-part-series about…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonRebecca Sive
Rebecca Sive is the author of Vote Her In and Every Day Is Election Day: A Woman's Guide To Winning Any--Office. Show topics: the significance of having a…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonJody Hamilton
Jody Hamilton, the host of the From The Bunker podcast is back! Topics: First a little fun and personal stuff and then politics. Democrats need to be bold with…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonEx-MAGA David Weissman
Former Trump supporter (now Democrat) David Weissman returns and we chatted about the latest news. He's working with the Lincoln Project and I expressed my…
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonJames Reynolds
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Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonKirk Acevedo
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Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonGlenn Kirschner
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Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonCharles Johnson
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Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonRandy Bryce
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Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonGreg Olear
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Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonJody Hamilton
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Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonSteph Walton
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Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonBob Cesca
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Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonDanny Deraney
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