Month: July 2025

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Song Exploder - Gigi Perez – Sailor Song

Gigi Perez is a singer and songwriter from Florida, and at 25 years old, she’s already had so many ups and downs in her music career. She started sharing her songs on TikTok, where they got enough attention that she got signed to a major label deal, but that ultimately didn’t pan out. Soon after that, as an independent artist again, she had her biggest breakout hit, with “Sailor Song.” She released it in July 2024, and it went viral on TikTok. Now, it has over a billion streams on Spotify alone, and it’s a part of her new album, which came out in April 2025. In this episode, you’ll hear how the song evolved, from her first voice memo to the final version, which she recorded in her childhood bedroom. I talked to Gigi about how “Sailor Song” came about, and about all the different parts of herself that she put into it—her faith, grief, desire, and more. 

For more info, visit songexploder.net/gigi-perez.

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Amarica's Constitution - Fallon’s Doctrine – Special Guest Michael Dorf

We pay tribute this week to a titan in the field whom you may not have heard of.  Professor Richard Fallon, the Joseph Story Professor of Law at Harvard, passed away last week.  As you will hear from his collaborator and friend, our guest Professor Michael Dorf, Dick Fallon had a deep impact in the law and the academy, and did so with grace, class, and integrity.  The parallels between his career and Professor Amar’s are striking, but so is the divergence in their constitutional approaches.  And this makes for a fascinating and instructive episode as we probe, rather deeply, the nature of these divergences and how they appear in various places in the law.  Meanwhile this also brings us back to a fundamental matter for this podcast, namely, the nature of and validity of originalism as opposed to or in concert with other methods of interpreting and understanding the constitution and applying it in today’s, and tomorrow’s, America.  That America must now, sadly, go on without Dick Fallon, but it will do so informed by his career and his greatness.  We are fortunate to have Michael Dorf to show us why this is so. CLE credit is available for lawyers and judges from podcast.njsba.com.

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Marketplace All-in-One - Can someone get Elon Musk’s attention?

Later today, we'll get sales, profits, losses, and hints of the road ahead from Tesla. But its boss, Elon Musk, has had a lot to juggle as of late: Tesla, government cost-cutting, X, SpaceX, xAI, and now maybe even a new political party. We'll discuss what all of these various priorities mean for Musk, Tesla, and Tesla's shareholders. And later on the program: Could prefab homes help alleviate the housing crisis?

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest Loads Up on ETH Treasury Bet Through Bitmine Shares | COINDESK DAILY

Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry as Cathie Wood's ARK Invest is making a bold bet on an ETH treasury play.

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest is making a bold bet on an ETH treasury play with a $116 million purchase of Bitmine Immersion Technologies shares. Plus, the continued rally in SOL and JPMorgan's plan for crypto-backed loans. CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie hosts “CoinDesk Daily.”

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

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Time To Say Goodbye - The ICE Fashion Show, Operator Cosplay and Masked Federal Agents with Patrick Hultgren

Hello!

Today, we talk about what the hell ICE is wearing out in the streets of American cities, “operator cosplay” which is the phenomenon of yahoos dressing up like they’re in special forces, and we talk a whole lot about ICE’s policy of wearing masks in public. We also continue our long search for the pod’s Joe House and bring on Kang’s college roommate, a veteran Green Beret who explains what ICE is wearing and why.



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Native America Calling - Wednesday, July 23, 2025 – Language revitalization: apps, games, and classroom lessons help keep Native languages vital

Education advocates are launching a multi-year program to develop a game and to teach the Denaakk’e language in schools. That and another language teaching apps come at a time when almost all federal funding for language revitalization is eliminated. We’ll also talk with a man about his personal journey learning the Cherokee language, an undertaking that inspired him to learn more about his tribal language’s history and importance in maintaining culture.

GUESTS

Joel Isaak (Dena’ina Athabascan), director of language and culture for the Kenaitze Indian Tribe

Mariah Pitka (Louden Tribe), executive director for the Doyon Foundation

Dr. Benjamin Frey (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians), assistant professor of Cherokee language and culture at the University of North Carolina–Asheville

Jamie Jacobs (Tonawanda Seneca), managing curator for the Rock Foundation collections at the Rochester Museum and Science Center

 

Break 1 Music: Siyo, Siyo (song) Paula Nelson (artist) C.H.A.N.T. Cherokee Hope And New Traditions (album)

Break 2 Music: Steamboat Akalii Song (song) Jay Begaye (artist) Horses Are Our Journey World (album)