I'm finally answering my listener email! It's been a tense... year, and I haven't gone to the inbox for a while. Today that changes! Before that, I can't help but unload a bit about whether or not "the system worked." When I hear people say that, it just does not seem right. But also... it did... kinda? Then I get to your questions and comments, about Constitutional Conventions and lizard people and revolution and progressive policies and more!
60 Songs That Explain the '90s - Geto Boys—”Mind Playing Tricks On Me”
Rob explores the revolutionary Geto Boys single ‘Mind Playing Tricks On Me’ by highlighting how it expresses raw vulnerability through its lyrics and its legacy in hip-hop to the present day.
This episode was originally produced as a Music and Talk show available exclusively on Spotify. Find the full song on Spotify or wherever you get your music.
Host: Rob Harvilla
Guest: Kiana Fitzgerald
Producers: Isaac Lee and Justin Sayles
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The Gist - Carried Away
On the Gist, how Governors Cuomo and Newsom are responding to the second wave.
In the interview, it’s part two of Mike’s conversation with The Dispatch’s senior editor David French about his new book Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation. French discusses the principles of pluralism, how some choose to decry tribalism and then default to using pluralism as a tactic. French also details some examples of it actually working as well as when it has led to friction.
In the spiel, performatively exercising your second amendment rights.
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Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Illinois Rolls Back To Tier 3 COVID Restrictions On Friday
Just before the holiday season, COVID-19 is tightening its grip on Illinois. Cases are surging, and hospitals are strained. Both are expected to grow exponentially without countermeasures. And starting Friday, those countermeasures take effect as Illinois rolls back to Tier 3 restrictions — which includes the closing of museums, casinos, and movie theaters, and stricter capacities for most businesses. Reset breaks down what to know about the new restrictions.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Yet Another Challenge to Obamacare before SCOTUS
How did Supreme Court justices receive the new case against Obamacare? Ilya Shapiro and Michael Cannon discuss the oral argument.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Yet Another Challenge to Obamacare before SCOTUS
How did Supreme Court justices receive the new case against Obamacare? Ilya Shapiro and Michael Cannon discuss the oral argument.
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Consider This from NPR - America’s Other Epidemic: The Opioid Crisis Is Worse Than 4 Years Ago
During President Trump's first year in office, 42,000 Americans died of drug overdoses linked to heroin, fentanyl and prescription opioids. After a minor decrease in 2018, deaths rose to a record 50,042 in 2019. That number will likely be even worse for 2020.
NPR's Brian Mann reports on the surge of synthetic fentanyl, especially in the western U.S.
And NPR's Emily Feng unveils a web of Chinese sellers exporting individual chemical components to produce fentanyl.
In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.
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NPR's Brian Mann reports on the surge of synthetic fentanyl, especially in the western U.S.
And NPR's Emily Feng unveils a web of Chinese sellers exporting individual chemical components to produce fentanyl.
In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.
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This Machine Kills - 20. War by Other Nerds (ft. Michael Richardson)
We jump into the abyss of Anduril Industries—one of the most actually evil, yet little known, technology companies in existence today—and Palmer Luckey, its ultra right-wing founder and Peter Thiel acolyte. To help us discuss how Silicon Valley is bringing its brand of innovation and disruption to the military-industrial complex, we’re joined by Michael Richardson, a senior research fellow at the University of New South Wales and expert on the cultural politics of military technology and drone warfare.
• Read Michael’s excellent essay on the politics of drone warfare and drone witnessing: The Testimony of Drones https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/the-testimony-of-drones/
• Follow Michael on twitter: https://twitter.com/richardson_m_a
• Check out his work: https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/our-people/michael-richardson
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Vijay Boyapati’s Four Mental Models for Valuing Bitcoin
From “Tulip Mania” to “the World’s Reserve Currency,” these valuation models show the full range of bitcoin’s long-term possibilities.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com and Nexo.io.
Vijay Boyapati’s “The Bullish Case for Bitcoin” is one of the most influential articles in the history of the industry – even being assigned reading from MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor as he tried to convince his board on the merits of what would become its big bitcoin move.
In this conversation with NLW, Vijay discusses his recent thinking around four valuation frameworks that help us understand 1) how people see bitcoin’s upside potential and 2) the likely values they suggest for bitcoin. We also discuss why state-level attacks are Vijay’s biggest concern for bitcoin’s future.
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Song Exploder - Billie Eilish – Everything I Wanted
Billie Eilish started releasing music when she was 14 years old. Her debut album came out last year, when she was 17. It debuted at Number 1 on Billboard, went triple platinum, and won five Grammys. Billie made that record with her brother and creative partner, producer Finneas O’Connell, in their parents’ house in Highland Park, Los Angeles.
While working on that album, they also started writing this song, “Everything I Wanted,” which came out as a single in November 2019. It was Billie’s second top ten hit, and it went double platinum, too. In this episode, you’ll hear some of the original voice memos Billie and Finneas made while writing, and the two of them explain why the song was almost never finished.