Month: January 2023

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What A Day - 2023 And Me

For our first episode of 2023, we talk about the big stories our hosts are watching this year. Stories include: the ongoing war in Ukraine, the effort to reform America’s childcare system, the release of some potentially game-changing films, and the ongoing battle over President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. 

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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #360 – “Dank Sinatra” with Erin Lampart

In this episode, Rivers and Sam are hangin' at Disgraceland Studios in East Hollywood with the absolutely HILARIOUS comedian Erin Lampart! First up, we sample an (Amish???) coffee drink sent in to us by our friend Nashville Will. Then we talk about the fake weed of the red states and the Top 3 actors of the 1980s. We also spend some time in Erin's hometown of Lancaster, PA. Korn's "Blind" is our JAM OF THE WEEK. Tune in now, friends and neighbors!  Follow Erin on all forms of social media @ThatsSoLampy.  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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The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | Dr. Ben Carson Diagnoses America’s Greatest Ailment as ‘Loss of Vision’

With the start of a new year, Dr. Ben Carson says he is concerned that America has lost its vision. 


Americans have lost “vision of what education is there for,” says Carson, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development and renowned neurosurgeon. 


“Education is there to teach you how to function successfully in a complex society,” he says, “and when you lose sight of that, then you start saying, ‘Oh, we've got to concentrate on what kind of pronoun you use, and whether you're really a girl or a boy, and are you a victim?’” 


With the start of the new Congress, Carson says, politicians need to prioritize not only education, but the economy, election integrity, lessening America's dependence on China, and holding Big Tech accountable. 


“If we can put a man on the moon, we can certainly come up with a mechanism that we have open, fair elections that are transparent, that are quick, that we have Election Day, not election season,” he says.


Carson joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss his road map for America’s success in 2023. 


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Nancy Pelosi’s Legacy

Villainized by the right, protested from the left, Nancy Pelosi led the Democrats through the Iraq War, the fight for Obamacare, and two impeachments. As Congress resumes, she will step down from leading the House Democrats, leaving behind a complicated legacy—and a list of hard-fought accomplishments.


Guest: Rachael Bade, political analyst for CNN and the co-author of Politico’s “Playbook” newsletter.


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The Stack Overflow Podcast - From life without parole to startup CTO

If you want to read more about Jessica, you can check out the blog we worked on together for the launch of our Overflow Offline initiative. If you've ever wondered what it's like learning to code from an XML file of raw Stack Overflow data, be sure to check this episode out.

You can learn more about the Supreme Court case that led to Jessica's release here.

Her company's mission is to build a better justice system from the inside, specifically by educating incarcerated individuals so they can teach the next generation and have valuable skills upon release. Read more about Unlocked Labs here.

Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to mx0 for answering the question: How do you extract the 'src' attribute from an 'img' tag using Beautiful Soup?

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Short Wave - Time Cells Don’t Really Care About Time

Time is woven into our personal memories. If you recall a childhood fall from a bike, your brain replays the entire episode in excruciating detail: The glimpse of wet leaves on the road ahead, that moment of weightless dread and then the painful impact. This exact sequence has been embedded into your memory thanks to some special neurons known as time cells. Science correspondent Jon Hamilton talks to Emily about these cells — and why the label "time" cells is kind of a misnomer.

Concerned about the space-time continuum? Email us at shortwave@npr.org — using science, we might be able to set you at ease in a future episode.

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NPR's Book of the Day - A futuristic novel about the powerful escaping to space echoes today’s world

Author Tochi Onyebuchi says that a majority of space stories he's come across favor those in power. Rich white people get to escape in spaceships, whereas less affluent Black and brown people are left behind on an increasingly inhabitable Earth. His new science-fiction novel Goliath gets at this power imbalance, and the author spoke to Juana Summers about how it tells us so much about racial and economic disparities right now.
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Read Me a Poem - “The Fig Tree” by Lasse Söderberg

Amanda Holmes reads Lasse Söderberg’s poem “The Fig Tree.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

 

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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