Month: June 2021

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The Best One Yet - 🦍 “Free popcorn for the people” — AMC’s gorilla pivot. Etsy’s $1.6B wardrobe. Big Meat’s cyberattack.

Shares of AMC surged so much yesterday, they had to be halted by the New York Stock Exchange. 4 times. And then AMC’s CEO did something we’ve never seen before. Etsy dropped $1.6B for second-hand clothing app Depop, because that’s where TikTok shops. And Earth’s biggest meat icon was just hacked and only one hero can save it. $AMC $ETSY $JBSAY Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewform 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 - The Battle For Voting Rights In Texas Isn’t Over

Texas Republicans, sensing the state’s slow, leftward drift, barreled ahead with legislation to make voting more cumbersome this week. Democratic lawmakers did the one thing they could to resist it: They refused to show up for a vote. But the fight over voting rules isn’t over in Texas, and Republicans maintain the upper hand. 

Guest: Alexa Ura, reporter for the Texas Tribune. 

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Academic Degrees

Every year around June, millions of people will wear robes and put on funny flat hats to receive their university degrees. But why do they all wear robes, and what’s the deal with that flat hat, and why does the hat have a frilly thing hanging off of it? And why do we give out degrees named after unmarried men? And why are some people called a doctor if they don’t have any patients? Learn more about the history of academic degrees on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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On Our Watch - 20-20 Hindsight

After his son is shot and killed by a Richmond, Calif. police officer, a father looking for answers becomes a police transparency advocate. When the files about his son's death are released, they show an accountability system that seems to hang on one question: did the officer fear for their life? And in a rare interview, we hear from the officer who pulled the trigger.
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NBN Book of the Day - Andrei Znamenski, “Socialism As a Secular Creed” (Lexington Books, 2021)

The predominantly secular focus of socialism can often obscure the parts of its ideology that reflect the elements it inherited from Western religious thinking. In Socialism as a Secular Creed: A Modern Global History (Lexington Books, 2021), Andrei Znamenski shows how this religious inheritance created elements within it that were closer in form to a belief system than a philosophy. These religious elements were most prevalent in socialism’s formative period, as Znamenski identifies the debt the socialist world-view owed to Christian millennialist ideas that were current in the early 19th century. Because of this the socialist world-view soon echoed the Christian one, with the working class becoming the chosen people who were anticipated to be the vanguard leading the world to the promised land of a socialist system. These elements persisted even as socialism focused on social engineering and nationalist forces caused socialist thinking to branch off into different forms. This continued in the 20th century as the economic conditions changed, as the “embourgeoisement” of the working classes and the post-World War II desire to disassociate from Soviet-style socialism led many socialists to turn instead to culture as the means towards attaining their millennialist vision.

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What A Day - The Crisis In Ethiopia With Nima Elbagir

Yesterday, the U.S., Canada, and a number of European countries called for a ceasefire in Ethiopia, where government forces have targeted an ethnic group called Tigrayans with horrific attacks that have been described with elements of a "genocide." Reports have suggested that millions of people have been displaced with an unknown number killed. We spoke with Nima Elbagir, a senior international correspondent at CNN, about the ongoing crisis in the country.

And in headlines: opposition leaders agreed to form a coalition to lead Israel, a cargo ship burns and sinks in Sri Lanka, and NASA will send spaceships to Venus.


Show Notes:

CNN: Nima Elbagir's coverage of Ethiopia – https://www.cnn.com/profiles/nima-elbagir

How to help those in Ethiopia:

  • International Rescue Committee – https://www.rescue.org/country/ethiopia
  • The UN Refugee Agency – https://bit.ly/3uIC2eZ
  • Doctors Without Borders – https://bit.ly/3uLaQfJ



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The NewsWorthy - New Vaccine Incentives, Missions to Venus & New ‘Bachelor’ Hosts- Thursday, June 3rd, 2021

The news to know for Thursday, June 3rd, 2021!

We'll tell you about how the White House is hoping to inspire more Americans to get COVID-19 vaccines. From free childcare to free beer, there are lots of new incentives. 

Also, Israel's leader is close to being knocked out of power. A fragile deal could shake up the country's powerful government.

Plus, which planet is next on NASA's radar, how AMC is giving back to small-time investors, and a new era for college basketball: another legend decided to step down.

All that and more in around 10 minutes...

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Sources:

White House Vaccine Push: Politico, AP, WaPo, White House, CDC

Thousands of Fauci Emails Published: WaPo, Buzzfeed, Newsweek, CNN, Fox News

Israeli Opposition Deal: AP, NY Times, Axios, Jerusalem Post

NASA Announces Venus Missions: Space.com, CNET, Axios, NY Times, NASA

Semiconductor Chip Plants in Arizona: Axios, Reuters, CNBC, Bloomberg

AMC Stock Surges: CNBC, MarketWatch, CNN, Reuters, AP

Winningest Coach in College Basketball Retiring: ESPN, USA Today, Raleigh News & Observer, Duke

‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Without Chris Harrison: Variety, ET, Page Six 

Thing to Know Thursday: Pride Month: CNN, People, ABC News, USA Today, Library of Congress, ACLU

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The Goods from the Woods - “The Corona Diaries #148” with Kyle Clark & Joe Raines

Three L.A. comedians are quarantined in a podcast studio during a global pandemic. There is literally nothing to be done EXCEPT make content. These are "The Corona Diaries" and this is Episode 148. Sitting in with us in the first segment of today's show is our friend, comedian Joe Raines! Follow Joe on all forms of social media @JoeMFRaines. Our second guest is the host of the This is Rad! Podcast and the grand poobah of Radland Records, comedy's Kyle Clark. Follow him on Twitter and all other forms of social media @KyleClarkIsRad!

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The Daily Signal - Why Rep. Chip Roy Aims to Defund Schools That Teach Critical Race Theory

Rep. Chip Roy recently introduced a bill to withhold federal funds from any schools that teach critical race theory.


The Texas Republican lawmaker joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to talk about the bill, how critical race theory is affecting what children learn in schools, what can parents do to make sure their kids aren’t being taught critical race theory, the illegal immigration crisis at the border, and more.


"What now the American people are seeing is they've had the veil lifted on our corrupt public education system," said Roy, whose bill would apply to both elementary and secondary schools as well as higher education.


"They're now actually starting to see the garbage that's being taught and shoved down the throat of our children," he said. "And part of that garbage has been critical race theory and all of the various tentacles that critical race theory creates, in which we are teaching our children to believe that America is evil, to be ashamed of "their whiteness." And how they can undo their whiteness. There are so many stories if you go look."


We also cover these stories:

  • Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is speaking out about newly unearthed emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden. Both Buzzfeed and The Washington Post obtained emails via a Freedom of Information Act request. 
  • The Republican National Committee is putting pressure on the Commission on Presidential Debates to ensure that presidential debates are nonpartisan. 
  • Rashad Turner, the founder of the Black Lives Matter chapter in St. Paul, Minnesota, leaves the organization over policy disagreements. 



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