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Rewind Studios · 10 episodes with transcripts

The government gets a bad rap. But the roads under your feet, the forecast on your phone, and the letter in your mailbox are all government too.

Spoken has transcripts of 10 Government That Doesn't Suck episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 12, 2026.

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Government Reform Before DOGE: NPRG and the Hoover Commission

October 12, 2026

Greg Jackson (0:01)

This is Rewind.

Lindsey Cormack (0:03)

Rewind.

Greg Jackson (0:07)

It's around 11 o'clock in the morning, September 29th, 1947 We're inside a stately meeting room at the White House, where at least 11 of 12 men have gathered to be sworn in to a government commission. President Harry Truman, a Democrat, welcomes this bipartisan group of six Democrats and six Republicans. Two from…

And the new Republican majority did have an answer on prices and the controls.

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