Curious City - The Hard Work of Collecting Scrap Metal for a Living
Chicago's scrap metal industry relies on small scale collectors, called scrappers, who scout for metal castoffs to sell and recycle.
Curious City - The Hard Work of Collecting Scrap Metal for a Living
Chicago's scrap metal industry relies on small scale collectors, called scrappers, who scout for metal castoffs to sell and recycle.
Oprahdemics - Oprah and the “Debt Diet”
In 2006, Oprah Winfrey profiled three families, their spending habits, and their out of control debt. The episode caused a huge stir, with audience members, the public, and Oprah herself adding a level of shame and disbelief at how the families spent their money. It also launched the eight-step “debt diet” program. But the episodes didn’t get at the larger structural questions of why families end up in debt, and why it’s so hard to break free.
Special Guest: Mehrsa Baradaran, professor at UC-Irvine and author of How the Other Half Banks and The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Relaxing or Voluntarily Having Dumb, Unpleasant Experiences
By Marie Buck
Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Television
It has been called the boob tube and the idiot box, but the fact is that perhaps no invention was as important to the latter half of the 20th Century as the television.
Once the problems of moving pictures and wireless audio had been solved, it took quite a bit longer to solve the problem of wireless moving pictures.
Once it was solved, it revolutionized the world.
Learn more about the history of television, how it was developed and how it took over the world, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NPR's Book of the Day - Book recommendations for 50+ states and beyond!
We have something a little different today. Often when we travel to new places, we look for books about the areas we'll be exploring. Whether via travel books, poetry, or fiction, reading about new places can help us understand them in all of their complexities. As summer kicks off and many start traveling, we asked experts in every state – and also D.C. and Puerto Rico – to tell us the books they think best represent where they live. From research anthologies to poetry collections and novels, their suggestions can help us explore and understand pretty much every corner of this country.
60 Songs That Explain the '90s - “Shook Ones, Part II”—Mobb Deep
Rob brings the pod to Queensbridge this week as he looks back at the ‘Infamous’ rap duo that is Mobb Deep and their legendary song “Shook Ones, Part II.”
This episode was originally produced as a Music and Talk show available exclusively on Spotify. Find the full song on Spotify or wherever you get your music.
Host: Rob Harvilla
Guest: Paul Thompson
Producers: Jonathan Kermah and Justin Sayles
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Audio Poem of the Day - We Real Cool
By Gwendolyn Brooks
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Nepalese Royal Massacre
On June 1, 2001, the nation of Nepal was shocked at the announcement that 10 members of the Nepalese Royal Family were killed in a massacre inside the royal palace.
It wasn’t just a case of homicide, it was a case of regicide, patricide, matricide, fratricide, sororicide, parricide, and suicide.
It was a moment that changed the course of modern Nepal.
Learn more about the Nepalese Royal Massacre, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NPR's Book of the Day - The aftermath of Brown vs The Board of Education in ‘Jim Crow’s Pink Slip’
Leslie Fenwick is a nationally-known education policy and leadership studies scholar at Howard University. In her new book, Jim Crow's Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership, Fenwick argues that the landmark Brown Versus the Board of Education decision ending legal segregation in American schools also resulted in the mass firing, or demotion, of Black principals and teachers. Fenwick told Michel Martin on All Things Considered that we're still living with the repercussions today, but that by acknowledging that we can help efforts to diversify the educational system.