Month: January 2021

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The Best One Yet - “You too, Tootsie?” — Tootsie Roll’s cyberbulling. Apple’s TBOY. Starbucks’ reimagining.

Fresh after cyberbulling (not cyberbullying) powered up GameStop’s stock, we’re looking at its moves on Tootsie Roll and AMC. Apple didn’t just have its best quarter ever… it had its best quarter in global capitalism history. And don’t call Starbucks a coffee chain anymore. $AMC $GME $TR $AAPL $SBUX Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - COVID’s Lasting Toll on Kids

Back in March, nobody knew how long kids would be learning from home and isolating from their peers. Now, with some kids returning to schools after 10 months away, one school counselor says getting kids back into physical classrooms is just the start to healing from the massive toll the pandemic has had on their mental health. 


Guest: Jan Desmarais-Morse, school counselor in Goshen, Indiana.


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The NewsWorthy - Domestic Terror Threat, Ambitious Climate Plan & Netflix’s Biggest Show- Thursday, January 28th, 2021

The news to know for Thursday, January 28th, 2021!

We're talking about:

  • a rare national terrorism warning: what the government now says is the biggest threat to Americans
  • how climate change could be, for the first time, a key priority in every level of the federal government
  • new advice from the World Health Organization about who should skip getting the COVID-19 vaccine for now
  • leaders in Washington weighing in on the Wall Street power shift
  • the Apple update that could keep you from getting hacked
  • what's now considered Netflix's biggest show

All that and more in around 10 minutes...

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Domestic Terror Threat Heightened: ABC News, AP, WSJ, NY Times, DHS

Climate Crisis Executive Actions: AP, Politico, WSJ, FOX News, White House

Watchdog: HHS Misused Emergency Funds: NY Times, CNBC, WaPo, ABC News, IG Report

U.S. Buys 200M More Vaccine Doses: CBS News, AP, Politico, WaPo, CDC

Shortages Warnings: NY Times, The Hill, NPR

WHO: Pregnant Women Should Skip Vaccines: WSJ, Reuters, LA Times, WHO

Ongoing Market Volatility: SEC, CNET, Bloomberg, WSJ, CNN

Apple Urging People to Update iPhones ASAP: AP, TechCrunch, USA Today, Apple

Cloris Leachman Dies: USA Today, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Mel Brooks Tweet

‘Bridgerton’ is Netflix’s Biggest Show: The Verge, Deadline, Netflix

Sundance Film Festival Begins: LA Times, Rolling Stone, Engadget, Cnet, Sundance FF

Thing to Know Thursday: Holocaust Remembrance: AP, NY Times, CBS News, NBC News

Survey Finds Lack of Holocaust Knowledge: Time, NBC News, Full Survey

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Short Wave - How Bonobos Help Explain The Evolution Of Nice

How did humans evolve some key cooperative behaviors like sharing? NPR Science Correspondent Jon Hamilton reports back from a bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where scientists are trying to answer that very question.

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NBN Book of the Day - Ed Caesar, “The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest” (Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster, 2020)

In 1933, Maurice Wilson — First World War hero, drifting veteran, and amateur aviator, lands in the aerodrome at Purnea in British India. His goal is to be the first man to climb Mt. Everest. And nothing — not his complete lack of climbing experience, the lack of official permission, and the efforts of British civil servants — will stop him.

Ed Caesar’s The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest (Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster, 2020) tells Wilson’s tale, tracing his story from the First World War, through drifting across the English-speaking world to his sudden drive to climb the world’s tallest mountain. He buys a biplane, flies to India, sneaks into Tibet and attempts to climb Everest, only to succumb to the elements on its slopes in 1934, like so many before and after.

In this interview, Ed and I talk about the story of Maurice Wilson, and the two stages of his quest to Everest’s summit: the flight to India, and the climb up the mountain’s slopes. We discuss how the geopolitical situation of the day affected his travels, and where Ed’s interest in this failed summit attempt comes from.

Ed Caesar is an author and a contributing writer to The New Yorker. Before joining The New Yorker, he wrote stories for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Outside, and the Smithsonian Magazine, He has reported from a wide range of countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo, Russia, and Iran. His first book, Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon (Penguin UK: 2015), was awarded a Cross Sports Book of the Year award. He can be found on Twitter at @edcaesar and Instagram at @byedcaesar.

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Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he’s a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon.

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What A Day - The Gig Short

At the Biden team's first public health briefing, officials noted that the number of COVID cases and hospitalizations in the US is on a downward trend, and they also emphasized the importance of genomic sequencing for detecting coronavirus variants.

Over 10 million people are still out of work due to the pandemic, and recent data suggest that the economy isn't getting any better. We spoke to people who have lost their jobs about what they are going through right now, months and months into the crisis.

And in headlines: a Seattle Seahawks player arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence, Biden signs executive orders directed at climate change, and another banner day for stonks.

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The Daily Signal - Future of Women’s Sports Threatened by Biden’s Executive Order on Gender Identity

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed a divisive executive order that could ultimately lead to the end of women’s sports as we know them. 


The “Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation” says, “Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports.”

The order gives biological males who identify as women a pathway to compete in female sports and enter women’s-only spaces, such as bathrooms. 


Natasha Chart, the executive director of Women’s Liberation Front, explains the implications of Biden’s executive action and why we now face an emergency in the battle to protect women’s athletic opportunities from men. 


We also cover these stories:

  • President Joe Biden takes major action on climate change.
  • Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says he will listen to the evidence presented during Trump’s impeachment trial.
  • The CDC predicts that America may reach as many as 514,000 COVID-19 related deaths by Feb. 20, 2021.


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Tech Won't Save Us - How Nostalgia Serves Corporate Power w/ Grafton Tanner

Paris Marx is joined by Grafton Tanner to discuss how social media constantly resurfaces the past, why film and television uses nostalgia to keep us engaged, and whether there’s a way to wield nostalgia in pursuit of a better world.

Grafton Tanner is the author of “The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech” and “Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts.” Grafton is also writing  “The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia” for Repeater Books, due out in October 2021. Follow Grafton on Twitter as @GraftonTanner.

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