After months of waiting, probing attacks have begun. A destroyed dam in Kherson suggests that Russia is upping the ante in response. But what else is in store? Uyghurs are still suffering in Xinjiang, and those who managed to escape China are being gagged. And, our columnist has some advice on keeping it together when the office is driving you mad.
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This week’s episode of “Gen C” features Ticketmaster EVP of Global Music David Marcus and Avenged Sevenfold Lead Singer Matt Sanders to discuss tokenized ticket experiences, deepening fan relationships and building infra for artists.
Avenged Sevenfold won MTV’s best new artist award in 2006, has released eight studio albums, counts millions of monthly fans on Spotify, has been nominated for Grammy awards and are some of the most forward thinking mainstream musicians in Web3. Avenged worked with Ticketmaster to tokengate their ticket-buying experience and are helping to build tooling for any artist to directly connect and leverage fan relationships with NFTs. Ticketmaster itself has tokenized experiences from The Super Bowl to Imagine Dragons and continues to build rails for artists to plug into to enable digital collectibles for live events. David Marcus from Ticketmaster and Matt Sanders from Avenged Sevenfold join Avery and Sam to discuss fandom and live events in a Web3 world.
Web3 offers budding opportunities for brands to create more value for their customers, engage fans and build immersive communities. But that doesn't come without its risks. Chainalysis helps Fortune 500 brands better understand and manage the risks in Web3 through proactive assessments on chain monitoring, investigations, training and more so that they can focus on building a roadmap for long-term growth. Learn more about how Chainalysis can help your company grow in Web3 at www.chainalysis.com/genc.
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WineChain revolutionizes fine wine as an alternative asset class on Polygon. Top wineries mint rare cuvées as NFTs backed by physical bottles, tradable on our marketplace. Experience unmatched liquidity and seamless storage and shipping. Create your account at winechain.co to access our most exciting drops of the summer!
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"Gen C" features hosts Sam Ewen and Avery Akkineni, with editing by Jonas Huck. Executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced by Uyen Truong and Eleanor Pahl. Our theme music is "1882” by omgkirby x Channel Tres with editing by Doc Blust. Artwork by Nicole Marie Rincon.
In January 897, something unprecedented took place in Rome.
Pope Formosa, the leader of the Catholic Church, was put on trial.
What made this unprecedented wasn’t that the pope was on trial, although it was unprecedented.
The remarkable thing was that Pope Formosa had died seven months earlier, and it was his exhumed corpse that was in the courtroom.
Learn more about the Cadaver Synod, perhaps the oddest trial in history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Liz and Andrew update you with breaking news about the ChatGPT case, Mata v. Avianca, as well as developments in the Trump documents and George Santos cases.
But all of that is mere appetizer for the main course: Alan Dershowitz's ongoing tilting at windmills to convince a court to rewrite the attorney sanctions rules so that Alan Dershowitz can continue to represent monsters and idiots without consequences. Learn how Dersh is continuing to peddle the lie that he was merely "of counsel" to Kari Lake and therefore shouldn't be held responsible for the fact that her complaint was a grab-bag of lies wrapped in more lies.
We're telling you about what could be a new phase of the war in Ukraine, with the Ukrainians reportedly putting American weapons and training into action.
Also, what's shaping up to be Canada's worst wildfire season on record is starting to impact more of the United States.
Plus, Prince Harry is becoming the first British royal to testify in court in 130 years; Apple held its first major product launch in a decade; and one movie created a worldwide paint shortage.
The Biden administration is using a Department of Homeland Security anti-terrorism grant program to target Americans with conservative and Christian beliefs. It's a shocking discovery that came to light in recent weeks thanks to the Media Research Center.
The Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program provided $352,000 to the PREVENTS-OH initiative at the University of Dayton. Included in the grant application was a chart, "The Pyramid of Far-Right Radicalization," which links well-known conservative organizations to neo-Nazis.
Dan Schneider, vice president of the Media Research Center's Free Speech America, MRC Business, and the external affairs division, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to explain what his organization discovered.
"They held a conference even before grant funding was provided, where they specifically used this chart and additional charts to train people on how to subvert organizations like The Heritage Foundation," Schneider said. "And this sounds like such a conspiracy theory. It sounds crazy that this is happening, but it really is."
Listen to the full interview on "The Daily Signal Podcast" or read the lightly edited transcript at DailySignal.com.
The Daily Signal's Ken McIntyre previously covered the MRC report, "Biden Admin’s Grants to Left-Wing Projects Aim to ‘Destroy’ Conservatives, Watchdog Says." https://dailysign.al/42bzgj4
The Republican field grows to twelve as the RNC sets new criteria for the first debate. Donald Trump prepares to be indicted again. Ron DeSantis tests out new attack lines in Iowa. Nikki Haley does a CNN Townhall that no one noticed. And Joe Biden takes a debt ceiling victory lap with an Oval Office address, while his anti-vax Democratic challenger RFK Jr. does a Twitter Spaces event with Elon Musk. Then Washington Post writer Ben Terris stops by to talk about his new book The Big Break.
In Nicole Cuffy's novel, Dances, CeCe Cordell becomes the first Black woman to be named principal dancer at a major ballet company; but this big break also comes with big expectations. In today's episode, Cuffy speaks with NPR's Juana Summers about how CeCe navigates the world of ballet's preoccupation with white bodies, how it affects her relationship with her mother and brother, and how Misty Copeland's very real accomplishments informed CeCe's story.
Amanda Holmes reads James Still’s poem “Leap Minnows Leap.” 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.
