Month: March 2022

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What A Day - Ginni Thomas The Text Engine

The House select committee investigating the insurrection is reportedly soon going to seek an interview with Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She was found to have lobbied former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to pursue a plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election, sending 29 texts on the subject.

Immigration advocates, lawmakers, and health officials are urging President Biden to overturn Title 42, a Trump administration policy used to block migrants at the borders from seeking asylum due to COVID-19. Karla Marisol Vargas, an immigration attorney at the Texas Civil Rights Project, joins us to discuss the policy and the legal battles against it.

And in headlines: Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine continue in Turkey, China put half of Shanghai on lockdown to contain a growing COVID outbreak, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the infamous Don’t Say Gay bill into law.


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Pod Save America - “Keep My Wife’s Name Out Your Evidence.”

Joe Biden says Vladimir Putin cannot remain in power, Donald Trump is back to saying Vladimir Putin is smart, Clarence Thomas’s wife was part of the plot to overturn the last election, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry joins to talk about the latest attempt by Amazon workers to unionize, and it’s time again to find out which Republican will take the top prize in the 2nd annual March Badness tournament.


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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #323 – “Ram Jam Thank You Ma’am” with Kyle Clark & Taylor Vracin-Harrell

In this episode, Rivers is hangin' out in Simi Valley, CA with the absolutely hilarious Kyle Clark and Taylor Vracin-Harrell! This episode starts off with a butter-flavored soda before taking the VERY LOGICAL next step of unpacking every aspect of the 1976 Ram Jam (or is it?) classic, "Black Betty". As it turns out, the story is mega weird. We also run down some fun Top 3 lists submitted by our listeners and AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long" is our JAM OF THE WEEK!  Follow Kyle on all forms of social media @KyleClarkIsRad. Follow Taylor on all forms of social media @RealTaylorVH.  Follow the show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod.  Rivers is @RiversLangley  Sam is @SlamHarter  Carter is @Carter_Glascock Subscribe on Patreon for HOURS of bonus content! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod

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The Daily Signal - Rep. Garret Graves: America Can Take These Steps Toward Energy Independence

As gas prices rise, the Biden administration is “looking for someone to blame, and unfortunately they really just need to turn and look at themselves,” Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., says.

 

The Biden administration “talks about environmental sustainability, [but] they don't think about economic sustainability as well,” Graves says, adding that when it comes to energy policy, President Joe Biden seems to be “governing by emotion, not by fact, science, and economics.” 


Graves, who heads the Energy, Climate, and Conservation task force for the House's GOP caucus, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” from the House Republican Issues Conference in Florida to discuss Biden’s mishandling of American energy policy, and what lawmakers can do in the long and short term to lower gas prices and move the country back toward energy independence. 


We also cover these stories:

  • President Biden proposes a $5.8 trillion budget for fiscal year 2023.
  • A federal judge says it’s likely that former President Donald Trump and a legal adviser, John Eastman, committed federal crimes by trying to prevent Congress' certification of the 2020 election.
  • Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs into law a bill designed to prevent teachers from offering instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity to children in third grade or younger.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Dua Lipa’s Copyright Problem

After more than 70 weeks on the Billboard U.S. Hot 100, Dua Lipa and her song “Levitating” have run into trouble: two separate copyright complaints claiming the pop star ripped off other artists in writing her hit. These aren’t the first lawsuits to test the boundaries of what counts as plagiarism in the musical realm; and if either suit succeeds, it will have far-reaching consequences for creativity in the industry.


Guest: Jeremy Orosz, associate professor of music theory at the University of Memphis.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Solving systemic racism and buying sensible cardigans with comic Phoebe Robinson

Comic Phoebe Robinson told NPR's Rachel Martin that she doesn't wake up every day thinking "time to dismantle systemic racism!" But since she has a platform, she might as well use it to bring about some positive change. She also told Martin that her dream life involves buying sensible cardigans, getting day drunk with Kathy Lee and Hoda, and a loving marriage with Robert DeNiro. Robinson's book You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain goes into the racism she experiences and why she would like to date either Michael Fassbender or Michael B. Jordan (sorry Mr. DeNiro).
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Short Wave - To Be DST, Or Not To Be. That Is The Question.

This month, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bill to make daylight saving time permanent. Now sleep scientists are weighing in and are suggesting the opposite — that standard time might be a better choice. Correspondent Allison Aubrey talks to host Emily Kwong about the pros and cons of adopting permanent daylight saving time or year-round standard time.

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It Could Happen Here - The Uprising in Corsica

Jake Hanrahan returns from a reporting trip from Corsica and tells us about the ongoing uprising there.

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Read Me a Poem - “Soldiers Aim at Us” by Ilya Kaminsky

Amanda Holmes reads Ilya Kaminsky’s poem “Soldiers Aim at Us.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

 

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.



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