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On Tuesday, workers in an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama started voting on whether or not to form a union. Amazon has been fighting the vote on multiple fronts. A “yes” vote could possibly spark unionization drives in warehouses all across the country.
Guests: Jay Greene, tech reporter for the Washington Post
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The news to know for Thursday, February 11th, 2021!
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Impeachment Trial Day 2 Recap: NY Times, AP, Reuters, Politico
GA Trump Call Criminal Investigation: AP, NY Times, FOX News, Axios
Pentagon China Task Force: Axios, Politico, FOX News, DOD
TikTok Sale Called Off: WSJ, AP, Reuters
CDC New Masking Recommendations: NBC News, WaPo, NPR, CDC
Study: Diabetes Drug Helps Weight Loss: NY Times, CNN, NEJM
NBA National Anthem Controversy: USA Today, WaPo, Axios, NBA
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nominees: AP, Rolling Stone, NPR, HOF
Thing to Know Thursday: Lunar New Year: Smithsonian, CNN, Business Times
The arrival in 1532 of a small group of Spanish conquistadores at the Andean town of Cajamarca launched one of the most dramatic – and often misunderstood – events in world history. In Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World (Oxford UP, 2020), R. Alan Covey draws upon a wealth of new archaeological and archival discoveries to detail the remarkable events that ended one empire and transformed another. From this he builds a new narrative that highlights the apocalyptic mindsets of the two empires and how these shaped the interactions between the Spanish and the Inca. As Covey explains, the Spaniards arrived at a point when the Incan empire was coping with the disruptions caused by a civil war and a devastating pandemic. To the Inca and their neighbors, the Spaniards were yet another disruptive force, one that different groups in the region sought to exploit for their own purposes. The result was twenty years of political infighting and warfare, culminating in the defeat of insurrectionary Spaniards by a force of Incans fighting on behalf of the king of Spain. Though such maneuvering helped preserve a degree of status for the Inca elite, it opened the way for the gradual absorption of the Inca into the Spanish empire in a process that played out over the following century.
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The House Impeachment managers began to make their case against Trump yesterday, showing graphic and never-before-seen video footage that illustrated the scale and severity of the attack on the Capitol. We talk about our key takeaways from the day.
The CDC updated its information on masks, saying that double masking can greatly reduce Covid transmission. Meanwhile, the Biden administration announced its plan to organize new mass vaccination sites that are meant to serve communities of color.
And in headlines: the White House imposes sanctions on the military regime in Myanmar, Britney Spears’s conservatorship case will return to courts, and the NBA finalizes its position on singing the national anthem.
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Construction of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border stopped on Jan. 20, thanks to President Joe Biden’s executive order, issued the day of his inauguration. What does this mean for the safety of Arizonans and many families who have ranches along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona? Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, joins the podcast to discuss that, cartels, drug trafficking, and why he thinks the Biden administration policies will encourage more illegal immigration.
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The impeachment trial has begun. We depart from our leisurely time-independent pace to go nearly live and address the most important issues. Can you try an ex-president? Is this really about "insurrection?" What are "high crimes and misdemeanors?" How can Presidents Obama, Bush, et all help? Akhil and Andy also discuss their recent op-ed from the NY Daily News earlier this week.
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Music
Metaphysical Waltz by Shirley Meyer Blankenship
...morphs into Jock O'Hazeldean by Cynthia Boener
There's Dominique Dumont's La bataille de neige
The Squimp from the Chico Hamilton Quintet
Fruit of Dreams by Les Baxter
Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett
Notes
Best place to go if you want to learn a lot about Todd Storz is The Birth of Top 40 Radio: The Storz' Stations Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s by Richard Fatherly and David MacFarland.
For a loving history of the whole era, you'd probably enjoy Ben Fong Torres' The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio
On the Gist, the prosecution in Trump’s Impeachment is firing on all cylinders.
In the Interview, we take a look inside the FBI’s fight against white supremacy and domestic terrorism. Frank Figliuzzi is a 25-year veteran of the FBI. He joins Mike to talk about why the country needs a domestic terrorism law, the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol, and how the FBI is battling the threat from within the United States. Figliuzzi is the author of The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau’s Code of Ethics.
In the spiel, like Gaston and the guys who went after Frankenstein’s monster before him, no matter what his defense says, Trump did incite an angry, pole-bearing mob.
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