Month: February 2023

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: FBI Agent Caught Working For Oligarch, Man Sues Due To ‘Friend Zone,’ Secret Russian Satellite is Disintegrating — and No One Knows Why

New York's former top FBI counterintelligence agent, Charles F. McGonigal, has been indicted for shady dealings with oligarchs. A man in Singapore attempts, for the second time, to sue a woman for rejecting his romantic advances. As mass media keeps people focused on spy balloons, the top-secret Kosmos 2499 Russian satellite appears to disintegrate in orbit -- no one knows what it was doing up there, or why it began to break up. All this and more in this week's Strange News.

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Headlines From The Times - Turkey’s earthquake, California’s “Big One”

An earthquake as devastating as the one that hit Turkey and Syria this month has been forecast to hit Southern California for decades. What can residents and governments do to prepare?.

Today, our Masters of Disasters talk to us about how to prepare. Read the full transcript here.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: L.A. Times earthquake reporter Ron-Gong Lin II, and L.A. Times coastal reporter Rosanna Xia

More reading:

 

California faces threat from the type of back-to-back mega-earthquakes that devastated Turkey

A deadly building flaw common in California brings destruction and misery to Turkey, Syria

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 02/13

The Kansas City Chiefs come from behind to win the Super Bowl. A fourth object shot down. More rescues a week after the earthquake. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Meet Lane Tech’s ‘Chicago Style Bot Dogs’ Robotics Team

Robotics season has begun. Never heard of it? It’s when high school robotics teams meet up to meet the next challenge issued by First Robotics. Reset checks in with the Lane Tech team’s head coach Robert Berg, seniors Gabby Weffer and Joaquin Valencia and junior Jane Bazzell.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Toil and rubble: a report from Turkey

Our correspondent visits town after devastated town. Poorly enforced building codes are one clear factor in the rising death toll—and a political backlash looms. Britain’s productivity problem is at least partly a problem with bad managers; we look at the substantial gains to be had from better-run companies. And the valuable data to come from an ambitious, national-scale sex survey.


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Start the Week - The food we eat

The psychologist Kimberley Wilson lays bear the truism ‘we are what we eat’. In Unprocessed: How the Food We Eat is Fuelling our Mental Health Crisis she bring into sharp focus the known links between diet, brain, behaviour and mental health. She tells Tom Sutcliffe how the government’s failure to address poor nutrition is a catastrophe.

Rebecca O’Connell’s research focuses on the social, cultural and economic reasons that shape what children and families eat, and the part food plays in their everyday lives. With the cost of living crisis and an increase in families suffering food poverty, she looks at the capacity to ‘choose’ to buy healthier food, and what other countries, like Portugal, have achieved in prioritising school meals.

But what about the food itself and how it’s grown? The author of The Ethical Carnivore, Louise Gray, turns her attention to fruit and veg in her latest book, Avocado Anxiety And Other Stories About Where Your Food Comes From. Tracking from farm to table, Gray discovers the impact that growing fruits and vegetables has on the planet.

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Take This Pod and Shove It - 47: “In Spite of Ourselves” by John Prine feat. Iris DeMent, w/ James Fritz

Maybe it's because it's the week of Valentine's Day, or maybe it's just because we can't get enough John Prine, but today we add the romantic, silly duet "In Spite of Ourselves," featuring Iris DeMent to our public playlist. We are joined by comedian James Fritz (@FritzIsDead, Still Together comedy album) to discuss John Prine's best songs, all things Kentucky, and if "In Spite of Ourselves" is played at too many weddings.

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You know we love John Prine, so here are some recs from James, Danny, and Tyler:

  • Six O’ Clock News 
  • Lake Marie 
  • Sweet Revenge 
  • Hello In There 
  • Sam Stone 
  • How Lucky 
  • Jesus The Missing Years 
  • Late John Garfield Blues 
  • Clocks and Spoons 
  • Sour Grapes 
  • People Putting People Down 
  • Souvenirs 
  • Blue Umbrella 
  • Storm Windows 
  • Summer’s End 
  • Your Flag Decal Wont Get You Into Heaven Anymore 
  • All The Best 
  • Long Monday 
  • That’s The Way The World Goes Round 
  • Mexican Home 
  • Let’s Talk Dirty in Hawaiian 
  • Lonesome Friends of Science 
  • Crazy as a Loon 
  • My Old Kentucky Home 
  • You Got Gold 
  • There She goes 
  • If I Could 
  • Yes I Guess They Oughta Name a Drink After You 
  • We’re Not the Jetset (feat. Iris DeMent)

And also, here's a few Iris DeMent recommendations too!

  • Our Town
  • Let the Mystery Be
  • Hotter than the Mojave in my Heart

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The Best One Yet - 🐊 “Thirst Trap” — Gatorade’s brand expansion. Elon’s 1st 100 days. Lyft’s brutal buy-ability.

Elon just finished his first 100 days at Twitter, so how’s it looking? Pepsi used the Super Bowl to announce it’s expanding the Gatorade franchise — because you gotta let your winners ride. And just after Uber had its best quarter ever, Lyft had its worst day ever. $PEP $KO $LYFT 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.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 2.13.23

Alabama

  • Congressman Moore offers bill to abolish US Department of Education
  • AG Marshall joins lawsuit against ATF re: Pistol braces and gunners
  • ADEM releases statement on Moody landfill fire and their response
  • Woman wanted in TX for leaving children unattended has ties to Mobile
  • Man found beaten and tied up in DeKalb county after truck is stolen
  • Church in Selma to get grant money as historic site for civil rights movement

National

  • US and Canadian fighter jets have shot down 3 UFOs in past 7 days
  • Lawsuit for emails show secret coordination re: Biden's classified docs
  • Judge in AZ rules against town ordinance on yard signs and  Super Bowl
  • Attorneys for Alec Baldwin ask judge to dismiss the manslaughter case