Month: November 2017

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - How expensive is Italy’s World Cup failure?

The Italians are calling it the apocalypse. Their team has failed to make it to the World Cup for the first time in 60 years. But it is about more than just national pride - there is a financial cost too. Some have suggested that it will cost FIFA $100m. Is this really true? We speak to sports writer Graham Dunbar who has been counting how much money football's world governing body might lose out on. Also we fact check the claim that 45% of Nigerian women marry before their 18th birthday. Presenter: Ruth Alexander Producer: Xavier Zapata

(Image: Alessandro Florenzi of Italy at the end of the FIFA 2018 World Cup Qualifier play-off, November 13, 2017. Credit: Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)

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The NewsWorthy - Ethics Investigations, Elephant Trophies & MVPs – Friday, November 17th, 2017

All the news you need to know for Friday, November 17th, 2017! 

Today we’re talking about two calls for ethics investigations in Congress, a big Keystone Pipeline leak and how the Trump administration lifted a ban on elephant trophy imports.

Plus: high-tech cities, apartments and trucks.

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.

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The Gist - The Nazi-Busting Woman Erased by History

Elizebeth Smith got her start poring over Shakespearean verse for secret messages that were not there. But she soon used those skills to break codes used by America’s enemies in both world wars. The FBI took credit for her decryptions of Nazi messages, and her husband’s work received much greater attention from the wars’ historians. Jason Fagone changes that with his latest book,­ The Woman Who Smashed Codes, and joins Mike to talk about it.  

In the Spiel, Mike surveys podcasting comedians’ reactions to Louis C.K.’s admitted sexual misconduct.

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Bay Curious - The True History of Irish Coffee and Its San Francisco Origins

Legend has it the Irish coffee was brought to the U.S. by the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco.


Reported by Kelly O'Mara. Bay Curious is Olivia Allen-Price, Jessica Placzek, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Penny Nelson and Julia McEvoy. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller.


Ask us a question at BayCurious.org.


Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

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The NewsWorthy - Newly-Discovered Planet, Tesla’s Semi-Truck & Titanic – Thursday, November 16th, 2017

All the news you need to know for Thursday, November 16th, 2017! 

Today we're talking about the President's Asia speech and the topic he won't talk about.

Plus: a newly-discovered and potentially habitable planet, Tesla's big reveal and Titanic (the movie) makes a comeback.

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.

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The Gist - People Power Beats the Courts

How can savvy activism topple decades of legal precedent? The ACLU’s David Cole tells us about three issues in which like-minded citizens advanced their agenda: marriage equality, gun ownership, and checking George W. Bush’s war on terror. Cole’s book is Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law.  

In the Spiel, Mike considers Brett Talley, President Trump’s odd pick for federal district judge.

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