Month: July 2022

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Proud Boys’ New Plan for Power

The Proud Boys started as a loose coalition of men who filtered misogyny and racism through an ironic, “just joking” veneer. But once Donald Trump told them to “stand back and stand by” from the debate stage, it became clear that something more serious was happening. After taking part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, the Proud Boys have become even more active in GOP politics, choosing candidates, and even running candidates from their own ranks.


Guest: Andy Campbell, Senior Editor at HuffPost and author of upcoming book We Are Proud Boys.


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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #337 – “Zagnut Factory” with Ben Sawyer

In this episode, Dr. Ben Sawyer is back at Disgraceland hangin' with the Goods from the Woods Boys for an absolutely rollickin' good time! We're starting this one off by tasting an energy drink that claims "good vibes" as one of its ingredients before getting into some bad vibes at Rivers's job and even worse vibes at the Georgia Guidestones (RIP to "mystery and intrigue"). We also chat about a recent rash of well-deserved buffalo gorings at America's National Parks and an obituary for the worst guy ever. "A Country Boy Can Survive" by Hank Williams Jr. is our JAM OF THE WEEK! Join the jamboree down at the ol' Zagnut factory and tune in now.  Follow Dr. Ben on Twitter @SawyerComedy and check out his podcast "The Road to Now".  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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Short Wave - Making Space Travel Accessible For People With Disabilities

This week NASA released some of the sharpest images of space ever from the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope's camera gives us a glimpse into distant galaxies and a picture of the makings of our universe.

Tomorrow, we'll nerd out about those photos.

But today, we're revisiting the idea of space travel. This encore episode, science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel talks to New York Times Disability Reporting Fellow Amanda Morris about one organization working to ensure disabled people have the chance to go to space.

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Covered in Night’ compares colonial and Indigenous approaches to justice

In this episode, we're going back in time to 1722 to examine the different approaches to justice between Native Americans and Pennsylvania colonists in the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by historian Nicole Eustace. In an interview with Here & Now's Scott Tong, Eustace discusses how reparative justice has deep roots in American history.
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It Could Happen Here - The New Wave of Queer Exterminationist Rhetoric

We talk Jordan Peterson's anti-trans supervillain monologue and the past month of increasing rhetoric around queer exterminationism.

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Planet Money - SUMMER SCHOOL 1: Recessions & Rap Battles

It's macro time! Today: Keynes vs. Hayek.

Season 3 of summer school is here asking the biggest economic questions about what makes an entire economy grow or contract? Things like, is there a "right" level of unemployment? Who gains from trade? What rhymes with 'paradox of thrift'? Also, inflation, we'll get to inflation.

Episode 1 begins with the rise of macroeconomics as a field, with one of the great economic debates of the 20th century: what causes booms and busts, and what can the government do about it? How free should a free market be?

It's a debate (over beats and with an actual rap battle) between John Maynard Keynes and F.A Hayek.

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The Gist - Warning Shot

UCLA law professor Adam Winkler says the recent SCOTUS ruling on handgun licensing wasn’t just a gun rights case, it was the first step in a big shift toward taking more and more power away from the States to do anything to stem the tide of gun violence. In the Spiel, we play “Names In The News,” including telescopes, former Clinton Officials, and the successfully fled. And, how hard is it to plan a coup anyway?

Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs - PLEDGE WEEK: “Hanky Panky” by Tommy James and the Shondells

This episode is part of Pledge Week 2022. Every day this week, I’ll be posting old Patreon bonus episodes of the podcast which will have this short intro. These are short, ten- to twenty-minute bonus podcasts which get posted to Patreon for my paying backers every time I post a new main episode — there are well over a hundred of these in the archive now. If you like the sound of these episodes, then go to patreon.com/andrewhickey and subscribe for as little as a dollar a month or ten dollars a year to get access to all those bonus episodes, plus new ones as they appear.

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