Month: January 2022

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The Best One Yet - 🧸 “10-year-old makes more than us” — Ryan’s World’s $250M game. Beyond Meat’s veganuary un-miracle. TPG’s public private IPO

The 3-time highest-paid YouTube star of the year is… a 10-year-old running a toy media conglomerate. Beyond Meat just officially became the most rooted against stock on Wall Street. And the biggest IPO of 2022 is TPG — A Private Equity firm that wants to be a Public Equity firm. $TPG $BYND $GOOG 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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Getting Hammered - ‘And That Time is Every Day’

It is time for the Biden administration to do what they need to do to finally vanquish the coronavirus, Vice President Kamala Harris says, and that time is everyday. It's also time for a new Getting Hammered segment: Getting Hammered Investigates. This week, Mary Katharine and Vic investigate Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's own investigation into his infamous KKK/blackface yearbook photo. Five year olds in Minneapolis need the vax to go out to eat, the return of Hillary Clinton, and the debate over the filibuster continues. 


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  • 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
  • 07:57 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
  • 08:15 - The media will consider differentiating what Covid statistics to report
  • 13:02 - Minneapolis and St. Paul Minnesota to require those ages five and up to provide proof of vaccination to enter restaurants
  • 21:31 - Hillary Clinton makes a comeback
  • 27:23 - Senator Tom Cotton blasts the filibuster using Senator Chuck Schumer's own words
  • 29:40 - Segment: Getting Hammered Investigates
  • 29:59 - Getting Hammered investigates Virginia governor Ralph Northam's own investigation into his infamous KKK and blackface photo
  • 35:35 - The SEC is too powerful, and people (not Mary Katharine) are upset
  • 39:10 - Update on tennis star Novak Djokovic
  • 42:51 - Segment: Uncanceled
  • 43:13 - Steve Harvey makes no plans for stand-up appearances due to cancel culture



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NBN Book of the Day - Ronald Beiner, “Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having banished fascism in World War II, liberalism had now buried communism, and the result would be an end of major ideological conflicts, as liberal norms and institutions spread to every corner of the globe. With the Brexit vote in Great Britain, the resurgence of right-wing populist parties across the European continent, and the surprising ascent of Donald Trump to the American presidency, such hopes have begun to seem hopelessly naĂŻve. The far right is back, and serious rethinking is in order.

In Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018), Ronald Beiner traces the deepest philosophical roots of such right-wing ideologues as Richard Spencer, Aleksandr Dugin, and Steve Bannon to the writings of Nietzsche and Heidegger--and specifically to the aspects of their thought that express revulsion for the liberal-democratic view of life. Beiner contends that Nietzsche's hatred and critique of bourgeois, egalitarian societies has engendered new disciples on the populist right who threaten to overturn the modern liberal consensus. Heidegger, no less than Nietzsche, thoroughly rejected the moral and political values that arose during the Enlightenment and came to power in the wake of the French Revolution. Understanding Heideggerian dissatisfaction with modernity, and how it functions as a philosophical magnet for those most profoundly alienated from the reigning liberal-democratic order, Beiner argues, will give us insight into the recent and unexpected return of the far right.

Beiner does not deny that Nietzsche and Heidegger are important thinkers; nor does he seek to expel them from the history of philosophy. But he does advocate that we rigorously engage with their influential thought in light of current events--and he suggests that we place their severe critique of modern liberal ideals at the center of this engagement.

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PHPUgly - 269: No Benefits, All the Regret

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The NewsWorthy - Vaccine Rules Blocked, Student Loans Forgiven & Big Olympic Favor- Friday, January 14th, 2022

The news to know for Friday, January 14th, 2022!

We'll explain the Supreme Court's decisions about Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Who will have to get their shots for work, and who is now off the hook.

Also, the most serious case yet to come out of the Capitol riot investigation and why presidential debates may never look the same.

Plus, a big winter storm moving through dozens of states, how tens of thousands of Americans are getting their debt erased, and an American athlete who gave up her spot in an Olympic event so her teammate would get the chance to compete.

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

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What A Day - Vaccine Mandate, We Hardly Knew Ye

The Supreme Court yesterday blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to enforce a vaccine or testing mandate for private employers. Meanwhile, Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin said that they, again, will not support changing the filibuster rules to pass new voting rights measures. 

More than 8,000 grocery store workers in Colorado have begun a strike against their employer, the Kroger-owned chain King Soopers. Kim Cordova, head of the workers’ union that represents them, joins us to discuss their demands.

And in headlines: The FBI arrested the leader and founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia for his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection, teachers in France protested the country’s school COVID policies, and Prince Andrew was forced to give up all of his military and royal titles.


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The Daily Signal - In Face of Big Tech Censorship, Free Speech Alternatives Emerge Online

Big Tech actors like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube feel increasingly comfortable banning conservative voices from their platforms. But as Big Tech is willing to censor conservatives for their speech, other platforms devoted to free expression are starting to fill the gap.

The director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Technology Policy, Lora Ries, contends that as long as these big platforms continue to censor dissent, alternative platforms will crop up to try to serve as alternatives. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

"The new CEO [of Twitter] has been quoted as less concerned with free speech and more about driving their users toward information that Twitter wants to provide," Ries said as an example of Big Tech censorship. "That doesn't bode well for free speech or true public discourse or having disagreements about difficult topics like COVID and COVID response."

"So as long as that trend continues, then these alternatives, I think, will grow and compete with each other," she added.

Ries joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss how Big Tech censors conservatives and how platforms such as Gettr and Rumble are putting free speech at the forefront. 

We also cover these stories: 

  • The Supreme Court blocks the Biden administration from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees.
  • Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., confirms she will not back efforts to alter the filibuster, seemingly ending attempts by Senate Democrats to change the procedure.
  • The House of Representatives passes a controversial elections-related bill that would greatly expand the federal government’s control of state and local election laws. 



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Opening Arguments - OA560: Supreme Court Just Plain Making Sh*t Up In Vaccine Ruling

There is a ton of breaking news today, happening just as we went to record. Andrew had time to briefly look over the Supreme Court ruling on the vaccine mandates and it is TERRIBLE. To quote Andrew's live reaction off mic, "Oh they're just lying now." It's that bad. But, we also had some good breaking news! In a nice timely Andrew Was Right, Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes was arrested on Jan 6 charges despite not even being there, signaling an escalation in the whole consequences thing. This is good. All that PLUS a wonderful deep dive on an alleged "one weird trick" to solve the filibuster. You know by now it probably won't work, but it actually does and it's very interesting! It just doesn't solve the problem people hope it would.

Links: Democracy Docket on Twitter, Chuck Schumer's filibuster dodge MSNBC, Congressional Research Service, Secretary of the Senate, Senate Rule IX, McConnell threatens Senate shutdown if Democrats nuke filibuster, Fake Electors

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NPR's Book of the Day - Looking for some pandemic-era writing? We have spooky and we have sweet.

Our first interview today is about a novel that, believe it or not, was actually written before the coronavirus pandemic even started. The End of October, written by Lawrence Wright, is about...a pandemic. But Wright told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly he wishes he hadn't gotten so much of it right. The second interview is with two friends, Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Nair, who were separated by the pandemic. So to connect with each other, they wrote a book of poetry called A Different Distance. They told former NPR host Noel King that the collaboration actually strengthened their friendship.