Month: July 2021

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Curious City - How Clean Is The Water At Chicago’s Beaches?

It’s that time of the year where we can all finally hit the beach. But our listeners have a lot of questions about Chicago’s beaches. Like, how clean is the water? How much poop is in there? And why are some flotation devices banned? Curious City’s Monica Eng puts on her sun visor and a good deal of sunscreen and tracks down the answers.
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Honestly with Bari Weiss - America’s Sex Recession

A recent study from the American Medical Association found that one-third of men between the ages of 18 to 24 reported having no sex at all in the previous year — and that was before the COVID lockdowns. Meantime, the marriage rate and the birth rate are both at historic lows.

What’s at a historic high is online porn. In 2019, more than five billion hours of porn were watched on Pornhub alone. That’s 500 thousand years worth of time.

My guest today has been at the forefront of this change.

Meet Aella. She has been doing sex work online and in real life for the past decade and she’s now killing on a platform called OnlyFans, where she charges for her followers for her explicit content. It’s like Substack. Sort of. Whatever preconceptions you have about porn stars I assure you she will challenge them.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Khalid Ibn al-Walid: The Sword of God

In the 7th century, the world saw the rise of one of the most important religious and political forces in history: Islam. Springing forth from the Arabian Peninsula, within a matter of months, the Islamic Caliphate had become one of the largest empires on Earth. Much of that growth was due to one man. He wasn’t a religious leader, and he wasn’t the head of the empire. He was one of the greatest military leaders in history.

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The NewsWorthy - Tracking a Hurricane, Olympic Favorite Out & Honoring Hometown Heroes – Wednesday, July 7th, 2021

The news to know for Wednesday, July 7th, 2021!

What to know about the latest track of what's now Hurricane Elsa: when it's expected to hit Florida, what people there can expect, and how volunteers have been helping out.

Also, new steps the government is taking to get more Americans vaccinated and why not everyone is happy about them.

Plus, an Olympic front-runner disqualified from Team USA, a deal to get more blockbuster movies on Peacock, and another big patriotic parade: this one for frontline workers.

Those stories and more in about 10 minutes! 

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes for sources and to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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60 Songs That Explain the '90s - Coolio—“Gangsta’s Paradise”

Rob explores Los Angeles rapper Coolio’s megahit “Gangsta’s Paradise” by discussing the distance between the stark realities behind much of hip-hop’s lyrical content and rap songs’ public reception as pop music.

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: Christopher R. Weingarten

Producers: Isaac Lee and Justin Sayles

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Liberals are Gaslighting Themselves

The leftist attacks on America around July 4 may prove to be the unforced error of all unforced errors, or so we say on today’s (sadly Noah-free) podcast. We also talk about tenure for critical race theorists, who really knows about critical race theory, and who should be talking about the vaccination problem. Give a listen. Source

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