“Binge Sesh” is a new L.A. Times podcast taking a deep dive into the television shows everyone is talking about. For its inaugural season, the series gets into the HBO show “Winning Time,” which talks about the Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s who dominated the NBA with its Showtime approach to basketball.
Here’s a special preview of the new season of Cautionary Tales from Pushkin Industries. On Cautionary Tales, bestselling author Tim Harford shares stories of human error, natural disasters, and tragic catastrophes from history that teach us important lessons for today. In this preview, you’ll hear about the 1981 Hyatt Regency Hotel collapse, a shocking design failure that resulted in 114 deaths and many more injuries. Hear the full story, and more from Cautionary Tales, at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/cteverything.
Our editors traverse layers of security to reach the situation room where Ukraine’s president is so often seen addressing the world. They ask about his decision to stay in Kyiv, which countries are proving most helpful and whether he always had all those green clothes. They find a man who speaks of determination and honesty, and whose sense of humour remains remarkably undimmed.
This week we discuss the short and elusive career of Michael David Fuller aka Depty Dawg aka DAWG aka The Duct Tape Messiah aka Blaze Foley aka BLAZE. Danny and Tyler are joined by comedian Shane Torres (@shanetorres, Conan, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central) to talk Blaze’s small but mighty catalog of songs (including "Clay Pigeons"), and his sharp wit and unrivaled authenticity.
Blaze has never been a household name, and is more so a gone-too-soon folk hero troubadour. Still, his influence has been heard on DIY songwriters since the 80’s, and he’s beloved by such recognizable names as John Prine, Merle Haggard, Townes Van Zandt, Lyle Lovett, Lucinda Williams, Kings of Leon, and many more.
If you’re new to Blaze, Shane and the boys have some songs they’d recommend you check out: If I Could Only Fly Big Cheeseburgers and Good French Fries The Way You Smile Springtime in Uganda Living in the Woods in a Tree Election Day Oval Room WWIII Picture Cards Can’t Picture You Let Me Ride In Your Big Cadillac Cold, Cold World
"He's only gone crazy once. Decided to stay."--Townes Van Zandt
John Egan is a computer and electrical engineer by training. Early on, he got disillusioned by the idea of building robots - it was too slow for him. While he was working at Harvard, he was watching the early days Y Combinator, and told his wife that there was a movement going on, and they should move to be a part of it. Startups weren't common then, so it was a risky move - but John found himself excited about being a part of it. Eventually they did make the move, created a file transfer company, and ended up getting acquired by Facebook. Outside of tech, he's married, with a 4 year old son. And for fun? He builds tools for himself, since he's not writing much code at his current venture. One of them is Postmortem.io, in addition to launching IR Conf for incident responders.
Post Facebook, John set out to ask the question to his prior colleagues that had left, about the tools they missed the most. The tool that kept coming up in conversation was a tool to manage incidents. So he decided to build this platform, named after an ancient Japanese philosophy.
Victoria’s Secret just realized it made a huge mistake in 2019, so it’s betting on bikinis. Instacart just pulled a move we’ve never seen before: cutting its own valuation (aka “An Apology Round). And if Russia is 1 big gas station and Europe’s its best customer, then America just announced a really long pump.
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With the Russian invasion of Ukraine images of war in Europe dominate the news, and questions rage about the political failure to both prevent and end the atrocities. Amol Rajan discusses the political forces that have allowed the West to flourish and the cracks that are beginning to widen.
Developed in the wake of European wars of religion and nationalism, Liberalism was designed as a system to govern diverse societies, with a strong emphasis on the rights of individuals, equality and the rule of law. In Liberalism and Its Discontents Francis Fukuyama argues for a return to its classical form but shows how attacks from both the left and right have left it in a state of crisis.
Europe’s dependence on Russian oil is central to Helen Thompson’s book, Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century. She looks back at the historical origins of today’s overlapping geopolitical, economic and political failures.
Shifts in the global balance of power in the 19th century between Old Europe and the New World of American Imperialism are at the heart of Edward Shawcross’s extraordinary tale. He describes the ignoble end of a Habsburg Archduke, aided by Napoleon III, who crossed the world to become The Last Emperor of Mexico.
