With a brown cloud hovering overhead and a second-place football team, Denver had dreams of becoming a world-class city. But it wasn't until the turn of the millennium that it found a way to get there: trains. Part 1 of 4.
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Artwork: Mia Rincón
Executive producers: Kevin Dale, Brad Turner
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Correction: An earlier version of this episode incorrectly said Seattle had built a light rail system in the 1990s. The reference has been removed.
Omnibus - The Anarchy (Entry 024.DA1106)
In which a German empress comes within a whisker of the English crown during a bloody civil war, and Ken discovers history's most fateful case of diarrhea. Certificate #45359.
The Best One Yet - 🍍 “I only date mangoes” — Bumble’s fruit deal. Chanel’s YOLO Economy. Spirit’s $6.6B air-cquisition.
Bumble’s 1st acquisition ever is a dating app focused on cherry, peach, and watermelon emoji. Chanel just jacked up the price of its legendary purse by $3K because we’ve entered the YOLO Economy. And Frontier is acquiring Spirit Airlines for $6.6B in the most expensive thing either cheap airline has ever done.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - A Brief History of New York City
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New York City has been called the city that never sleeps. It is the world center for finance, the location of the United Nations, and a center for fashion and entertainment.
But why did this city become so important, and why did such an important city get founded where it is? Was it chance, was it history, or was it geography?
Learn more about New York City, as much as is possible on a daily podcast, on this Episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NBN Book of the Day - Margaret M. Scull, “The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1998” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Until surprisingly recently, the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and was commemorative rather than analytical. Margaret M. Scull's The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1998 (Oxford UP, 2019) uses the Troubles as a case study to evaluate the role of the Catholic Church in mediating conflict.
During the Troubles, these priests and bishops often worked behind the scenes, acting as go-betweens for the British government and republican paramilitaries to bring about a peaceful solution. However, this study also looks more broadly at the actions of the American, Irish, and English Catholic Churches, as well as that of the Vatican, to uncover the full impact of the Church on the conflict. This critical analysis of the previously neglected state, Irish, and English Catholic Church archival material changes our perspective on the role of a religious institution in a modern conflict.
Allison Isidore is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church’s response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1.
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The City - Introducing Accused Season 4: The Impending Execution of Elwood Jones
When Rhoda Nathan's lifeless body was discovered in her hotel room, it was assumed she'd had a heart attack. The autopsy proved otherwise: Nathan, 67, had been viciously beaten to death, punched so hard by her assailant that two of her teeth had been knocked out. Days later, a hotel employee went to the hospital to be treated for an infection in his hand, which was teeming with a bacteria most often found in human mouths. That, plus a pendant an officer said was discovered in the trunk of his car, sealed the fate of Elwood Jones, who awaits execution on Ohio's death row. For nearly 30 years, Jones has maintained his innocence -- and accused police of straight-up framing him. The journalists of Accused are reexamining the case to learn if Jones truly belongs on death row, or if a botched investigation let someone else get away with murder.
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The NewsWorthy - Mask Mandates Lifted, Budget Airlines Merge & NFT Home Sale – Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
The news to know for Tuesday, February 8th, 2022!
From California to Connecticut, state leaders are loosening some Covid-19 restrictions. We'll explain.
Also, which country's top official gave a show of support at the White House and may cut off a major project with Russia.
Plus, some Olympic athletes are complaining about their living conditions at the Beijing Games, a new merger could create one giant, low-cost airline, and an American home is being sold as an NFT for the first time.
Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!
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What A Day - Inside The Unionization Effort At Amazon
The White House released a report yesterday detailing how it wants to increase union participation and collective bargaining in the workforce amid historic lows in union membership across the U.S. This is happening while workers at an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama are in the midst of a union election process after last year’s election result was overturned. Reyn McGuire, an employee at the warehouse who is actively organizing her coworkers, joins us to discuss how this vote is and isn’t different from last time.
And in headlines: Protests over Covid mandates in Ottawa prompted the city to declare a state of emergency, school mask mandates repealed in three states in the Northeast, and Frontier and Spirit Airlines announced plans to merge.
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Pod Save America - “Fine, we’ll talk about Joe Rogan.”
The Republican Party passes an official resolution stating that the violent insurrection on January 6th that left multiple people dead and injured was “legitimate political discourse;” Mike Pence says Donald Trump is wrong about his ability to overturn the election, and guest host Sam Sanders joins to talk about the controversies raging through the media over Joe Rogan, Jeff Zucker, and Jon Lovett’s interview with Jen Psaki.
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The Daily Signal - Trump Border Chief Reveals ‘Invasion’ at Southern Border
The crisis on our southern border continues to get worse by the day, critics say. Washington's failure to control illegal immigration is resulting in an influx of drugs and gang violence that makes the country less safe.
Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection during the Trump administration, is furious that a solid southern border has been transformed into the Wild West in the first year of the Biden administration.
"President [Joe] Biden inherited the most secure border in our lifetime, and with the stroke of a political pen from Day One, he started to systematically dismantle it," says Morgan, now a visiting fellow in national security at The Heritage Foundation, parent organization of The Daily Signal.
"And as each month in the past year has gone by," he says, "the border has become less secure and our country has become less safe because of this administration's, I believe, ideologic and politically driven open-border policies."
Morgan joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss how the border crisis affects Americans, and what can be done to fix it.
We also cover these stories.
- The trucker protest in Canada, called the Freedom Convoy, is up against government opposition.
- New Jersey and Delaware announce timelines for ending school mask mandates.
- Rumble offers to pay podcaster Joe Rogan $100 million over four years to move to its platform from Spotify.
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