Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: Food Deserts, Hijacking Planes, and the World’s Most Dangerous Prisoners

Bad Ghost hips us to a recent plane hijacking, targeting a Walmart. Roadrunner asks where the world's most dangerous prisoners are kept. Lactrodectus inspires an upcoming episode on conspiracies surrounding food deserts. All this and more in this week's listener mail. They don’t want you to read our book. They don’t want you to see us on tour.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Xi sells sanctuary: a telling Putin meeting

As the presidents of China and Russia meet in Uzbekistan, we examine their friendship. They have much in common—but Russia’s prosecution of the war in Ukraine may strain relations. Islamic State and al-Qaeda may be less in the news but their foothold in Africa only keeps growing. And why so many young Korean city-slickers are becoming farmers in the countryside.

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Eating Ourselves to Death

Fifteen years ago, there was a lot of talk about the obesity epidemic. In 2008, Michelle Obama started a government program called “Let’s Move!” that sought to reduce childhood obesity. You might remember the First Lady teaming up with everyone from Beyonce to Big Bird to promote exercise and better eating habits. Unfortunately, the program was largely a failure. And the obesity statistics continued to rise.


74% of Americans today are either obese or overweight. And yet, we’re no longer talking about it. The national conversation around health and weight has turned away from things like good nutrition, weight loss and the importance of physical fitness, and instead adopted phrases like “fat acceptance” and “healthy at any size.” In some circles, there’s even blanket denial that there is anything unhealthy at all about being obese. 


Shaming people for being overweight is unequivocally wrong. But in our attempt to not offend, we’ve lost sight of the very real fact that there’s a problem. Americans are heavier than ever, sicker than ever, dying earlier than ever, and... it's all preventable. So today, a conversation with Dr. Casey Means, a Stanford trained physician who left the traditional medical system behind to solve the one problem that she says is going to ruin us all: bad food.

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Bay Curious - Long Gone Amusement Parks That Captured Bay Area Hearts

This week we remember two amusement parks that have etched themselves into the imaginations of generations of Bay Area residents: Idora Park in Oakland and San Francisco's Playland at the Beach.


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The Best One Yet - 🐏 “I gave away $3B” — Patagonia’s ultimate donation. Amazon’s NFL play. Railroads’ road rage

After a $13B deal, NFL football begins on Amazon tonight, streaming exclusively for the 1st time ever - because football is the holy grail. The founder of Patagonia just gave away his $3B baby - the ultimate mission statement. And your weekend Amtrak right might get canceled because the Railroad strike reveals how much we rely on Railroads. $AMZN $CSX 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 9.15.22

Alabama

  • State lawmaker Ken Pascal talks about defining school choice in 2023 legislature
  • AL Dept. of Corrections must define its execution of inmate  by Thursday
  • Jefferson County deputy resigns after arrest for soliciting a prostitute
  • Kayak company to move its headquarters to Huntsville
  • Sheffield police department take 8 inmates to river for Baptism

National

  • SCOTUS agrees to hear case involving CA woman and CPS taking her kids
  • Joe Biden issues executive order on bio engineering including human cells
  • House Republican are concerned over military readiness and vaccine fallout
  • Railroad shutdown could come this Friday after 3 unions reject a deal
  • Another tense senate committee dialogue between Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci
  • Denmark has now banned all Covid 19 vaccines for anyone under the age of 50

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Wonderful World of Tin

In the ancient world, only seven metals were identified and named: gold, silver, iron, lead, copper, mercury, and tin. 

Tin probably doesn’t rank up there with the other metals in terms of how interestingness….or usefulness. Nonetheless, tin was incredibly important to the ancient world and remains incredibly important today. 

In fact, tin is probably playing a role in your life right now, and you don’t even know it.

Learn more about the wonderful world of tin on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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