In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys dive into a hat full of random topics and they each pick one. Rivers takes on the "Top 5 Grocery Store Jams", Pat goes over the "Top 5 ABC TGIF Sitcoms", and Mr. Goodnight tells us the "Top 5 Bob Dylan Albums of the 80's". You're gonna love this episode. Song of the week this week: "County Line" by Susto. You can follow us on Twitter: @TheGoodsPod Rivers is @RiversLangley Dr. Pat is @ReallyPatReilly Mr. Goodnight is @SepulvedaCowboy
The Gist - It’s Time We Talk About Wolverines
On The Gist, we again compare the value of winning states vs. winning delegates in Democratic primaries. Which could be more valuable? Then learn the definition of an “S.O.B. flag” when we visit Vexillology Corner with our favorite vexillologist Ted Kaye. He’s the author of Good Flag, Bad Flag. For the Spiel, it’s time we talk about wolverines.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The MetLife Case and ‘Systemic Importance’
The designation of "systemically important financial institution" for MetLife would mean billions of dollars in costs that regulators never bothered to tally. Thaya Brook Knight comments on how MetLife, at least for now, gets to avoid additional federal control.
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Start the Week - Loneliness and Inner Voices
On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to the psychologist Charles Fernyhough about the inner speech in our heads. But what if it's a lone voice? The writer Olivia Laing explores what it's like to be lonely in a bustling city, while the playwright Alistair McDowall explores what happens when you're abandoned on a distant planet with no sense of time. The biographer Frances Wilson writes a tale of hero-worship, betrayal and revenge through the life of Thomas De Quincey, a man who modelled his opium-habit on Coleridge and his voice and writing on Wordsworth. Producer: Katy Hickman.
Start the Week - Loneliness and Inner Voices
On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to the psychologist Charles Fernyhough about the inner speech in our heads. But what if it's a lone voice? The writer Olivia Laing explores what it's like to be lonely in a bustling city, while the playwright Alistair McDowall explores what happens when you're abandoned on a distant planet with no sense of time. The biographer Frances Wilson writes a tale of hero-worship, betrayal and revenge through the life of Thomas De Quincey, a man who modelled his opium-habit on Coleridge and his voice and writing on Wordsworth. Producer: Katy Hickman.
Curious City - Illinois Has No Budget, So Where Do State Tax Dollars Go, Anyway?
The answers are crazy. We’ll have fun looking. But you’ll probably be pretty mad by the end. Things are worse than you thought.
The bad news: We’re paying out billions more than we take in. Just without setting priorities.
The state comptroller — who makes the payments — calls it “ad hoc” and “ridiculous.”
The worse news: We’re still letting billions of dollars in services go totally unfunded.
And: We’re breaking the non-profits that provide those services.
Full story, complete with charts.
Curious City - Illinois Has No Budget, So Where Do State Tax Dollars Go, Anyway?
The answers are crazy. We’ll have fun looking. But you’ll probably be pretty mad by the end. Things are worse than you thought.
The bad news: We’re paying out billions more than we take in. Just without setting priorities.
The state comptroller — who makes the payments — calls it “ad hoc” and “ridiculous.”
The worse news: We’re still letting billions of dollars in services go totally unfunded.
And: We’re breaking the non-profits that provide those services.
Full story, complete with charts.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS More or Less: The story of average
In the 1600s astronomers were coming up with measurements to help sailors read their maps with a compass. But with all the observations of the skies they were making, how do they choose the best number? We tell the story of how astronomers started to find the average from a group of numbers. By the 1800s, one Belgian astronomer began to apply this to all sorts of social and national statistics ? and the ?Average Man? was born.
Curious City - Illinois Has No Budget, So Where Do State Tax Dollars Go, Anyway?
The answers are crazy. We’ll have fun looking. But you’ll probably be pretty mad by the end. Things are worse than you thought.
The bad news: We’re paying out billions more than we take in. Just without setting priorities.
The state comptroller — who makes the payments — calls it “ad hoc” and “ridiculous.”
The worse news: We’re still letting billions of dollars in services go totally unfunded.
And: We’re breaking the non-profits that provide those services.
Full story, complete with charts.
Curious City - Illinois Has No Budget, So Where Do State Tax Dollars Go, Anyway?
The answers are crazy. We’ll have fun looking. But you’ll probably be pretty mad by the end. Things are worse than you thought.
The bad news: We’re paying out billions more than we take in. Just without setting priorities.
The state comptroller — who makes the payments — calls it “ad hoc” and “ridiculous.”
The worse news: We’re still letting billions of dollars in services go totally unfunded.
And: We’re breaking the non-profits that provide those services.
Full story, complete with charts.