Month: September 2021

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The NewsWorthy - “Strategic Failure”, Booster Side Effects & Amazon Astro Robot – Wednesday, September 29th, 2021

The news to know for Wednesday, September 29th, 2021!

What to know about some tense testimony on Capitol Hill as top military leaders give their take on the U.S. withdrawal in Afghanistan, including the advice they say the president ignored. 

Also, what kind of side effects you can expect from a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. There's new data from the CDC. 

Plus, what's behind the latest stumble on Wall Street, Amazon's newest tech products like its first home robot, and where to get a free cup of joe on this National Coffee Day.

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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Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College - S2 | Ep 3: An Alley Along Melrose

Los Angeles, 1981-1982. “This rumor went around in 1981, 1982, that kids just were brought to see the body of another kid.” The origin story of Bret Easton Ellis (and Less Than Zero), Part Two.

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Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College - S2 | Ep 2: Bret Ellis, Valley Boy

Los Angeles, 1980-1981. “There was just this huge sense that the world was gay, gay, gay.” The origin story of Bret Easton Ellis (and Less Than Zero), Part One.

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Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College - S2 | Ep 1: Dis-Orientation

Bennington. Autumn, 1982. Donna, Jonathan and Bret arrive on the campus of the school nicknamed “The Little Red Whorehouse on the Hill.” One of them comes with a steamer trunk. One of them comes with a Kangol cap. One of them comes with a “suitcase full of drugs.”

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What Could Go Right? - Are We In a Transformational Moment? with John Wood, Jr.

Life has gotten a lot better for a lot of people. But the story of upward movement, while true overall, is not felt equally across society. We see the consequences of that playing out in the United States, where tension over our immediate failures, not celebration over our big-picture successes, carries the day. In this episode, we speak with public intellectual John Wood Jr, a national leader at Braver Angels, an organization dedicated to depolarizing politics, about the power of inner transformation to fuel societal change and how a multiplicity of American identities and stories can be unproblematic if we develop a new national sensibility of goodwill.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Colson Whitehead Finally Gets To Flex His Comedy Muscle

After writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning books The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, author Colson Whitehead needed a change of pace. So for his next novel, Harlem Shuffle, he decided to tackle topics near and dear to his heart: heists and New York real estate. In today's episode, Morning Edition host Noel King talks to Whitehead about his book's protagonist, a furniture retailer named Ray Carney, and what draws him to a double life of crime.
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60 Songs That Explain the '90s - R.E.M.—“Nightswimming”

Rob explores alternative rock band R.E.M.’s piano ballad “Nightswimming” by discussing the band’s musical journey and their songs’ frequent lack of lyrical coherence.

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: Jay Caspian Kang

Producers: Isaac Lee and Justin Sayles


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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - We Need Our Own ‘Music Man’

Between rising crime rates and contradictory reporting on how the Afghanistan pullout failed so spectacularly, the COMMENTARY podcast could use what Donald Trump reportedly relied upon to calm him down: a “music man” who would soothe him with the score of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, “Cats.”... Source

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