Month: August 2023

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Why The Blind Side’s Narrative Fell Apart

Last week, retired NFL lineman Michael Oher sued the Tuohy family and revealed a gulf between real life and how he and the family were portrayed in 2009’s The Blind Side.


Guest: Santul Nerkar, reporter on sports and business for the New York Times. 


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Pod Save America - The JV Republican Debate (Preview)

The Republican candidates try to figure out how to debate when the front-runner isn't on stage. The Bulkwark's Tim Miller joins the pod to talk about prep, bad candidates, and whether it's too late for anyone to consolidate the anti-Trump Republican vote. Plus, Vivek Ramaswamy's tennis moves, and our first-ever round of "I'm so Indicted"!

For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.

 

Show Notes

NEWS ROUND UP 

  • Des Moines Register: How every GOP presidential candidate performed with likely caucusgoers in new Iowa Poll
  • NYT: DeSantis Tweaks His Messaging and Tactics After a Tough Campaign Stretch
  • NY Post: DeSantis calls MAGA supporters in Congress ‘listless vessels,’ says Trump didn’t drain swamp
  • CNN: Asa Hutchinson says he has qualified for the Republican debate
  • WaPo: What to watch for in the first Republican debate
  • NYT: Democrats, Popcorn in Hand, Root for a Rowdy G.O.P. Debate
  • The Atlantic: Vivek Ramaswamy's Truth
  • NBC: Trump has already recorded his debate-night interview with Tucker Carlson, sources say
  • NYT: How G.O.P. Views of Biden Are Helping Trump in the Republican Primary
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Good Bad Billionaire - Introducing… Good Bad Billionaire

Coming Tuesday 29th August...

The podcast that finds out how the richest people on the planet made their billions, and then judges them for it. Are they good, bad, or just another billionaire? Each episode BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist and podcaster Zing Tsjeng pick a billionaire and uncover their journey to the top. They learn how they made their money and what makes them tick, to find out what they tell us about our society. Millionaires are ten a penny these days, but billionaires have probably changed the world. From Rihanna to Jeff Bezos to Kim Kardashian to Bill Gates, we ask if billionaires are all relentless egomaniacs destined to end civilisation, or if they are geniuses, gods of our time to be worshipped? Or are they like everyone else, just with a bit more luck?

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Medical research made understandable with AI

Sorcero uses a mix of natural language processing, generative AI, and even more old school symbolic AI, where they craft their own ontologies, to try and ingest that river of new medical data and make it easier to search and comprehend. 

Less than 0.2% of the global population can read a medical paper! AI can help make these dense works up to 700x more readable. 

Medical Affairs Teams are the groups inside big pharmaceutical companies that helps surface the right information to health providers. It’s hard for them to keep up with the thousands of new articles and research papers being published each month, much less unpack that information. 

Connect with Dipanwita Das and Hellmut Adolphs on LinkedIn. 

Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner John Carrell for saving the question Self join vs. inner join with an excellent answer. 

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NPR's Book of the Day - James McBride’s new murder mystery digs into Black and Jewish communities in the ’30s

In James McBride's new novel – the titular shop at its heart – The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store – can be found in a neighborhood in Pottstown,Pennsylvania, where working-class Jewish immigrants and African-Americans live side by side, forming a community of protection and respect for one another. In today's episode, McBride speaks with NPR's Scott Detrow about the murder mystery that unfolds in the novel, the inspiration he took from his own grandmother, and the allure of writing about Pennsylvania.
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Read Me a Poem - “Waiting for Icarus” by Muriel Rukeyser

Amanda Holmes reads Muriel Rukeyser’s poem “Waiting for Icarus.” 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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It Could Happen Here - The IMF Admits We Were Right About Inflation

Mia talks with Steve Mann and John Michael Colón about their supply chain theory of inflation was vindicated by history and then adopted by economists.

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This Machine Kills - Patreon Preview – 277. All the World’s a Casino / And All the People Merely Gamblers

In another instalment of What the Fuck is Happening in America, we talk about how sports betting has totally saturated society since the Supreme Court overturned a ban in 2018, then we discuss the next wild frontier of online casinos driven by gambling platforms and megastar streamers, then finally we gaze into the dark abyss of The Machine Zone. Stuff we reference ••• The dark side of the US sports betting boom https://www.ft.com/content/2e1a235a-8a46-47f3-b040-5ca21a04ebf4 ••• Cigars, Booze, Money: How a Lobbying Blitz Made Sports Betting Ubiquitous https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/business/sports-betting-lobbying-kansas.html ••• Twitch’s Gambling Boom Is Luring Gamers Into Crypto Casinos https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-04/twitch-s-gambling-boom-is-luring-gamers-into-crypto-casinos ••• A Nation of the Walking Dead https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-nation-of-the-walking-dead/ Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)