Month: April 2022

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NBN Book of the Day - Jared N. Champion and Peter C. Kunze, “Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians As Public Intellectuals” (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Stand-up comedians have a long history of walking a careful line between serious and playful engagement with social issues: Lenny Bruce questioned the symbolic valence of racial slurs, Dick Gregory took time away from the stage to speak alongside Martin Luther King Jr., and—more recently—Tig Notaro challenged popular notions of damaged or abject bodies. Stand-up comedians deploy humor to open up difficult topics for broader examination, which only underscores the social and cultural importance of their work.

Edited by Jared Champion and Peter Kunze, Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians as Public Intellectuals (University Press of Mississippi, 2021) draws together essays that contribute to the analysis of the stand-up comedian as public intellectual since the 1980s. The chapters explore stand-up comedians as contributors to and shapers of public discourse via their live performances, podcasts, social media presence, and political activism.

Each chapter highlights a stand-up comedian and their ongoing discussion of a cultural issue or expression of a political ideology/standpoint: Lisa Lampanelli’s use of problematic postracial humor, Aziz Ansari’s merging of sociology and technology, or Maria Bamford’s emphasis on mental health, to name just a few. Taking a Stand offers a starting point for understanding the work stand-up comedians do as well as its reach beyond the stage. Comedians influence discourse, perspectives, and even public policy on myriad issues, and this book sets out to take those jokes seriously.

Rebekah Buchanan is an Associate Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music.

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The NewsWorthy - Airlines Drop Mandates, Late-Season Snowstorm & Holograms in Space- Tuesday, April 19th, 2022

The news to know for Tuesday, April 19th, 2022!

We're talking about the latest change to the national mask mandate for planes and trains and how airlines are responding. 

And there's been a near-record high number of arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border right before another surge is expected.

Also, the calendar says spring, but it feels a lot more like winter for millions of Americans.

Plus, some of your packages may be delivered a little later than expected, NASA says the first humans were "holoported" from Earth to space, and a card game is about to become a Netflix TV series. 

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes...

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What A Day - Maskers, Prepare For Takeoff

A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, voided the nationwide travel mask mandate on Monday. Last week, the CDC extended that mask mandate for commercial flights, subways, trains, and other forms of public transportation until May 3rd.

The Russia-Ukraine war has sparked concerns among U.S. officials about cyber warfare. On Sunday, CBS News reported “evolving intelligence” that suggests that Russia is planning new cyber attacks.

And in headlines: Russia launched an assault on eastern Ukraine, Johnson and Johnson agreed to settle an opioid lawsuit for $99 million, and Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy.


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Pod Save America - “Midterm Madness with Elizabeth Warren.”

Senator Elizabeth Warren stopped by Crooked HQ to chat with Tommy and since Jon, Jon, and Tommy covered lots of news in the DC and Boston live pods, they dig into the mailbag today to answer some of your questions on the midterms, messaging, favorite DC scandals, and more.


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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #326 – “Cosmic Holiday” with Carly Garber & Seth Pomeroy

In this episode, Rivers and Carter are joined by comedians Carly Garber and Seth Pomeroy. The episode starts by, once again drinking something called "adaptogens" which makes everyone feel mega weird. This is a prfect mood-setter for an episode all about Q-Pilled train conductors, bad music from high school, and 12th century noblemen drowning in hot, molten doo doo.  "How Do You Like Me Now?" by Toby Keith is our "JAM OF THE WEEK"! Change your damn life right now, y'all. Give us a listen!  Follow Carly on all forms of social media @CarlyJGarber. Follow Seth on all forms of social media @Seth Pomeroy.  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 - Mom Explains Tragic Reality of Gender Ideology That Claimed Her Daughter

Abby Martinez knows firsthand how gender ideology can negatively affect a young life. 


Martinez's daughter Yaeli began taking cross-sex hormones in high school and changed her name to Andrew.


When Martinez raised concerns about the path her teen daughter was on, she lost custody of Yaeli to the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. 

Yaeli later took her own life at age 19.


“I wish the system, instead of spending millions of dollars on these kids, having them in foster care, [would instead] support us as a parent and give us the tools that we need,” Martinez says. 


Martinez joins “The Daily Signal Podcast" to talk about what happened next and how the lives of her whole family have been changed forever by a transgender movement that promotes “sex change” for children, teens, and young adults.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - A Caseworker Quits Over Texas’ Trans Kids Policy

Morgan Davis saw his job as an investigator in the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services as a calling. As a transgender man, he joined the child welfare agency to be the advocate he never had while growing up. But Davis eventually quit, following Governor Greg Abbott’s order to investigate the families of transgender children. While Abbott’s order is currently paused due to an injunction, many families are still left in limbo due to open cases – and other child welfare workers are handing in their notices.


Guest: Morgan Davis, investigator at the Travis County office of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. 


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The Stack Overflow Podcast - What’s the average tenure of a software developer at a big tech company?

Average tenure at Google has been reported at 1.1 years,  which stands in contrast to a broader average of 4.2 years for software developers across the board.

Tech jobs at many so called titans and disrupters last less than two years, according to research from Dice.

Uber is forging an unlikely alliance with two taxi tech firms.

The ultimate chron job - ensuring users can access a chronological feed on their favorite social media without sacrificing your recommendation algorithm's potency or data. 

Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to alkber, who explained how to convert seconds to minutes, hours and days in Java

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Short Wave - TASTE BUDDIES: Y U Salty?

Salt has such a rich history that it was once (and is perhaps still) a sign of wealth. In this latest installment of our series on flavor and taste, "Taste Buddies," Scientist-in-Residence Regina G. Barber goes on a salty flavor journey with scientist Julie Yu. Along the way, Julie explains salt's essential role in our daily lives and how it affects our perception of food.

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NPR's Book of the Day - Reinventing the epic with ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois’

When you think of an epic, what comes to mind? The Iliad, the Odyssey, maybe Beowulf? Well, author Honorée Fanonne Jeffers points out that epics are almost always about white men. She told former Morning Edition host Noel King that she didn't want to tell that story because that story has already been told...many times. So, Jeffers set out to write a different kind of epic about heroic Black women in The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois.