Notes of the Week

Notes of the Week with Nick Paro and Walter Rhein is an unabashedly progressive conversation - grounded in true pro-dignity, pro-life values free from the lies of regressives. sickofthis.substack.com

Notes of the Week is a society podcast hosted by Nick Paro and Walter Rhein, with 33 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Nick Paro and Walter Rhein hosts Notes of the Week, a society show with 33 episodes published.

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  Episode #34

  Notes of the Week | E34 - Pushing Forward

  May 26, 20262h 13mS1

  <p>Notes In Review</p><p>This episode lands one week after Dr. Melissa Bird, a Shivwits Band of Southern Paiutes descendant, social worker, lay preacher in the Episcopal Church, and first-time congressional candidate, lost her Oregon primary — and immediately committed to running again. Nick Paro, Walter Rhein, and Margaret Williams host. Bird ran in Oregon’s second-largest congressional district (six counties, nearly the full Oregon coast), pulled “almost 21,000 votes” and 21% of the vote against the incumbent, and raised over $75,000 from more than 800 donations while refusing corporate money. Her opening point is the one the rest of the conversation orbits: a workin...

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  Episode #33

  Notes of the Week | E33 - Candidate Carousel #2 with Ericka and Abel

  May 19, 20262h 27mS1

  <p>Candidate Carousel #2 puts one Courage for Democracy congressional candidate — Ericka Kopp, running in Virginia’s 1st District — and Progressive congressional candidate Abel Chavez, running in California’s 48th — across a panel of Nick Paro and Walter Rhein, with guest co-hosts Lisa Gonzalez and Ellie Leonard. Kopp, a practicing healthcare attorney and caregiver to a disabled combat veteran, opens by pulling apart the Virginia Supreme Court’s reversal of the state’s redistricting referendum — the same court that had told the people to vote, then overturned the result by a single justice’s vote — and connects it to Louisiana v. Callais, which gutte...

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  Episode #32

  Notes of the Week | E32 - A Candidate Carousel

  May 5, 20262h 10mS1

  <p>Notes In Review</p><p>This special episode of Notes of the Week is structured as back-to-back interviews with two progressive congressional candidates: Chris Armstrong, running in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District against incumbent Tom Tiffany, and Abel Chavez, running in California’s 48th — the seat just vacated by 26-year incumbent Darrell Issa after the passage of Prop 50. Nick Paro and Walter Rhein host alongside guest co-host Eevie Bateman, a former early-childhood-education director and full-time writer who joined to help boost grassroots candidates. The through-line of the conversation is the same in both halves: the Democratic Party’s “electability” frame is bro...

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  Episode #31

  Notes of the Week | E31 - Religious Patriarchy

  May 1, 20261h 34mS1

  <p>Notes In Review</p><p>This episode argues that the central failure of the political left in the United States is asking permission to defend itself. Nick Paro and Walter Rhein open with the asymmetry that has defined the Trump era: Republicans wield power to its maximum reach, Democrats wield it to the minimum out of fear of overreach, and the public has been conditioned to victim-shame the candidates and movements who try to push back. Walter’s framing — quoted later in his Substack note — applies the same logic to sexual violence: “Let’s hunt down all the men in the Rap...

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  Episode #30

  Notes of the Week | E30 - What is Conscientious Emigration?

  Apr 21, 20261h 45mS1

  <p>Notes In Review</p><p>This episode centers on a profound, practical question: if you’re going to leave the United States, what does it mean to do that well? Attorney and emigration consultant Elizabeth Silleck La Rue, Esq., joins Nick Paro and Walter Rhein to define conscientious emigration — the discipline of leaving with intentionality about the environmental, cultural, and economic impact you have on the country you move to. Elizabeth founded Conscientious Emigration in January 2024, originally as a side project born from decades of environmental justice work, but after November 2025 gutted all nonprofit funding in that space, she pivo...

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