Month: August 2021

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Does Cuomo Have a Scheme?

Today's podcast brings up the question: Why did Andrew Cuomo date his resignation fourteen days away? What is this Machiavellian schemer up to? And as the infrastructure bill passes the Senate, what will Nancy Pelosi do in the House—and is she any good at her job? And why, oh why, do the data on the Delta variant simply not suggest what the COVID hawks want them to suggest? Give a listen.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Salvator Mundi

In 2005, a small auction house in New Orleans sold a painting at auction labeled at Lot 664. The description of the item was simply, “Christ Salvator Mundi. Oil on cradled panel.” The painting was sold for $1,000. Twelve years later, the same painting was sold at Christie’s in New York for a record $450 million dollars. Learn more about Salvator Mundi, the world’s most expensive painting, and the controversy surrounding it, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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The NewsWorthy - Cuomo Quits, Coast-to-Coast Heatwave & Perseids Meteor Shower – Wednesday, August 11th, 2021

The news to know for Wednesday, August 11th, 2021!

What to know about the downfall of one of the nation's most visible leaders. New York's governor is stepping down, but the investigations into his behavior continue.

Also, the Senate passed a bill to improve roads, the internet, the electric grid, and a lot more. However, some Democrats could hold it back in the House.

Plus, new protection for kids on Google's platforms, technology that could be a breakthrough in dementia care, and how to see what NASA calls the "best meteor shower of the year."

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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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - You Say You Want a Revolution?

Democrats are placing a big bet on the American voting public’s desire for a radical transformation of the social compact with their $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. The risk seems far more pronounced than the rewards. Also, Andrew Cuomo seems to be the only person in America who doesn’t know he’s done.

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Time To Say Goodbye - Live music and a “good hang” with No-No Boy’s Julian Saporiti and Emilia Halvorsen

Hello from back in July, when Tammy recorded this special live episode in Portland, Oregon! The occasion was the new album, “1975,” by No-No Boy.

No-No Boy is Julian Saporiti, a folk and rock musician from Nashville whose PhD dissertation has taken the form of an extended song cycle about Asian America. Julian and his partner, Emilia Halvorsen, an aspiring lawyer who co-produced and sings on “1975,” talked with Tammy about the folk tradition, US empire, travels in the Mountain West, ethnomusicology, the struggle for immigrants’ rights, Asian-American and mixed-race identities, John Okada, and Jens Lekman. They also performed two brand-new tunes.

The songs you’ll hear in this episode:

* “Imperial Twist,” No-No Boy, 1975 (Smithsonian Folkways, 2021)

* “St. Denis or Bangkok, From a Hotel Balcony,” 1975

* “Yuiyo Bon Odori,” Nobuko Miyamoto, 120,000 Stories (Smithsonian Folkways, 2021)

* “The Best God Damn Band in Wyoming,” 1975

* “No No Boy,” The Spiders (Philips, 1966)

* “Disposable Youth,” No-No Boy, 1942 (2018)

* “Pilgrims,” 1975

* “St. Michael,” Little Monk Panda Scout aka Julian and Emilia

* “Panda Scout,” Little Monk Panda Scout

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