Welcome to the world of real life superheroes - ordinary people who put on outrageous costumes and head out to fight crime. Journalist David Weinberg sets out to uncover the truth about Seattle’s masked crusader, Phoenix Jones.
The Superhero Complex is produced by Novel for iHeartRadio.
The boys discuss outgoing press secretary Jen Psaki and her history with Amazon’s anti-union consulting company, some former Obama guys and their good opinions, and Jenifer Rubin’s advice for helping Dems in the midterms. Then, we take a look at a piece taking Morbius to task for failing to live up to Vampires’ potential as maligned outsiders.
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Irina Borogan, and Andrei Soldatov, two Russian Journalists who have documented the Kremlin's war on the internet discuss the effectiveness of suppression of news in Russia, and Putin's strengths and failings as an information warrior. In the Spiel, mistaking the trend for the truth, plus Mike resigns from the Academy.
As the world sees images of bodies in the streets of a Kyiv suburb, the United Nations considers whether to kick Russia out of the Human Rights Council. Plus, Russia's last independent media sources have closed. So many Russians are turning to virtual private networks, or VPNs, to find out what's really happening next door in Ukraine.
Psychedelics are largely illegal throughout Illinois but ketamine is available for therapies.
Reset hears from the sponsor of a bill seeking to decriminalize plant-based psychedelics, and from a Chicago group about the psychedelic therapies they offer.
GUEST: Representative La Shawn K. Ford - D, 8th District of Illinois, Judy Seals, nurse practitioner at Field Trip Health Center in Chicago
Thousands of people who claim Johnson & Johnson baby powder caused them to develop cancer cannot sue the company, which used a controversial legal maneuver in bankruptcy court to freeze lawsuits against it.
One thing we like to focus on is the people running the businesses we own shares of. (00:20) Jim Gillies discusses: - Howard Schultz suspending Starbucks' stock buyback plan on his 1st day as interim CEO - The likelihood of Schultz remaining CEO beyond his "interim" period - Elon Musk taking a 9% "passive stake" in Twitter, according to the SEC - The subtle-yet-important difference between a 13D filing and a 13G filing - Whether Tesla shareholders are bothered by Musk paying attention to another company (18:30) Asit Sharma and Brian Stoffel examine cloud infrastructure company DigitalOcean through the lens of competitors like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Stocks: SBUX, TWTR, TSLA, DOCN, SHOP, MSFT, AMZN, ORCL Host: Chris Hill Guests: Jim Gillies, Asit Sharma, Brian Stoffel Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Rick Engdahl, Tim Sparks
Elon Musk has been talking about Twitter a lot lately. He did a poll asking whether it should make its algorithm open source (80% said “yes”). Another poll asked if Twitter lived up to the principles of free speech, and over 70% of more than 2 million respondents said no. With the announcement today that Musk had purchased a 9.2% stake in Twitter (more than 4x the 2.25% stake of co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey), everyone is speculating about what he might do about it.
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “I Don't Know How To Explain It” by Aaron Sprinkle. Image credit: Christian Marquardt/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
