Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: Sports Conspiracies, Part I

Could it be possible that your favorite sports are fixed? Join the guys as they interview Brian Tuohy, author of The Fix is In, on the murky connections between sports, gambling, politics and organized crime in the first part of this two-episode series.

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Headlines From The Times - A Haitian Odyssey Episode 1: Texas

We bring you episode 1 of “Line in the Land,” a new podcast from Texas Public Radio and the Houston Chronicle that explores the human story behind the Haitians traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border in search of a better life. Read the full transcript here.

Hosts: Joey Palacios with Texas Public Radio, and Elizabeth Trovall with the Houston Chronicle.

More reading:

Inside the brutal 10,000-mile journey Haitian migrants make in search of a home

Podcast: Our nation’s Haitian double standard

Opinion: Helping one child at a time in Haiti 10 years after the devastation

The Intelligence from The Economist - Not-so-safe house: America kills al-Qaeda leader

For decades Ayman al-Zawahiri was the chief ideologue of the terrorist group. We ask what his death in Afghanistan means for the broader jihadist movement. A vote on abortion in Kansas today is a sharp test of the electorate following the gutting of Roe v Wade. And remembering Diana Kennedy, an indefatigable food writer and champion of Mexican cuisine.

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S6 E29: Irina Bednova, Cordless

Irina Bednova started programming when she was a kid, starting out with a smash the cockroach game written in Delphi (which is object oriented pascal). She obtained her Computer Science degree in Russia, and moved to the UK to work in a few startups, including Monzo a popular fintech product. Outside of tech, she cycles her hobbies from time to time, and has landed on gardening at the moment, along with interior design. She's mentioned she is going back to woodworking when the weather changes.

Irina and her co-founder led teams at Monzo, specifically in operations. What they noticed was the proliferation of chat tools for customer service - but, that telephony was largely ignored. Once they validated the problem, they set out to build a product in this space.

This is the creation story of Cordless.

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The Best One Yet - ⚡ “Big Drink Energy” — Celsius’ Pepsi deal. Bird’s Millennial scooter. GM’s White House meeting.

Bird Scooters has become a penny stock because VCs aren’t paying for half your ride anymore. Pepsi is investing $550M into Celsius Energy Drinks, and it’s getting the friends & family discount. And one company visited the White House more than any other in the last year: General Motors. And it just might pay off with a huge climate deal. $BRDS $UBER $CELH $PEP $GM Follow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod And now watch us on Youtube Want a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form Got the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that too Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 8.2.22

Alabama

  • USDA secretary Tom Vilsack to visit Lowndes county today re: water filtration
  • AL Dept. of Health to shift its response in cases of Covid 19 in the state
  • Calera officer survives a brush with fentanyl while conducting vehicle search
  • Concerned Doctors of AL respond to 1819's embalmer and blood clot story
  • Rock the South music festival being held in Cullman this weekend

National

  • Pelosi could go to Taiwan according to media reports, China continues to threaten
  • 35 confirmed dead in Kentucky after flash flooding occurs
  • Senate GOP tout a study that says Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is indirect tax hike
  • Harvard study says rioters on Jan. 6th were motivated by concern not a planned coup
  • CNN talks to Wyoming voters about Liz Cheney's re-election bid, hilarious response