Month: September 2023

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The NewsWorthy - Politicians Join Picket Line, Amazon’s AI Bet & ‘The Office’ Reboot?- Tuesday, September 26, 2023

The news to know for Tuesday, September 26, 2023!

We are just a few days away from a possible government shutdown. We'll explain where things stand, including the options lawmakers are considering and why each is facing challenges.

Also, President Biden is planning to take historic action today, and former President Trump is doing something similar tomorrow. We'll tell you who they're supporting and trying to win over before election day.

Plus, a medical breakthrough could lead to the first standard way of diagnosing long Covid, Amazon made a multi-billion-dollar investment into AI, and a reboot of 'The Office' could be on its way.

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What A Day - Pickets Down

The Writers Guild of America late Sunday evening announced a tentative agreement with the major studios. The Guild has said that it got most of what it wanted, including increased pay for writers on streaming content, minimum staffing requirements for TV shows, and guarantees from the studios over the use of artificial intelligence. We’re joined by WGA member Vicky Luu to talk about her reaction to the deal and more.

And in headlines: the shooter who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 has been ordered to pay over $5 million to the victims and their families, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez said he won’t resign after being charged with bribery, and Governors Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis are going head-to-head on the debate stage in November.

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Slate Books - Hear Me Out – “You Should Be Grateful”: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… what? Oh my god, who told you?


Adoption is a complicated thing. Raising a child who’s not related to you is challenging — and being that child, in many ways, is even harder. 


And it’s all too easy for adoption, particularly a white family adopting a black or brown child, to be framed as a heroic act. The truth, as adoptees will tell you, is a lot messier.


Angela Tucker, a writer and transracial adoptee, joins us to argue that adoption is traumatic… and with the right reforms, it shouldn’t need to happen as often as it does.



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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #396 – “Fringe Chip News”

In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys are hangin' out at Disgraceland Studios with NO GUEST NEEDED! We try out an Icee-flavored energy drink made by a truck stop t-shirt slogan-stealin' steroid maniac in Pennsylvania. We also populate these Top 3 lists sent in to us from our listeners: Top 3 movies that you used to think were deep, Top 3 songs that make you nostalgic, and Top 3 seasonal foods. Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" is our JAM OF THE WEEK! This one is a dang ol' hoot and we can't wait for you to join us!  Follow us on social media:  Rivers is @RiversLangley  Sam is @SlamHarter on Twitter and @SamHarter666 on Instagram  Carter is @Carter_Glascock  Subscribe on Patreon for HOURS of bonus content and growing ALL THE TIME!  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 - ‘China’s Economy Is The Foundation of Much of Its Power Projection Around The World,’ Author Says

The People's Republic of China "has used the power of its economy beyond its borders to push its illiberal and authoritarian geopolitical objectives and to change the behavior of individuals, governments, companies, and multilateral institutions," says Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, author of "Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World."

"The reason I chose to focus on China's economic power is that I have covered China's power projection beyond its borders as a beat for about seven years, and I found that underlying much of China's power is its economic power," says Allen-Ebrahimian, who is the China reporter for Axios. 

"Whether that's its diplomatic power, it's still, to this day, a lot of the foundation of that is its economic power, what we tend to call extraterritorial censorship," says Allen-Ebrahimian, who has lived in Taiwan since August 2022, adding:

I mean, the NBA and Hollywood studios will self-censor. This is an extension of China's economic power. And so I found that at least, I would say, until the first half of the 21st century, China's economy is the foundation of much of its power projection around the world.

Allen-Ebrahimian joins today's episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss her new book and what she has seen as the biggest change that China has undergone since she lived there in 2004 and then again from 2008 to 2012. 


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The Best One Yet - 🔫 “Super Soaker World” — Nerf’s theme park. Writers’ strike finale. Spotify’s podcast translator.

Hasbro’s Nerf brand was essential to our childhood, so it’s opening its 1st ever Nerf theme park — Because great brands are like a rubberband… they can strettttch.

The writers have reached a tentative deal with Hollywood (spoiler: Sources say it’s fantastic for the writers) — Now the other strikers will pull a Meg Ryan and ask “I’ll have what she’s having.”

And Spotify just launched a feature that translates podcast hosts into different languages — It can translate words, but can it translate chemistry?


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Writer’s Strike Is Over: Who Won?

After five long months, the WGA and major Hollywood studios have reached a tentative agreement to end the strike—well, that one anyway. Who won what and where do the actors stand?


Guest: Michael Schulman, staff writer at The New Yorker.


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Pod Save America - Is Trump Really Up 10?

Trump goes on a crazy spree and demands a shutdown, suggests that America’s top general deserves to be executed, and promises to investigate media outlets if he wins. Meanwhile, his GOP opponents who trail him by more than 40 points prepare to duke it out on the debate stage for the second time. The Washington Post releases an outlier poll that triggers a freakout. House Republicans turn on each other as they bring the government closer to a shutdown. New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez gets indicted for bribery and corruption. And later, Tommy talks to Kal Penn about the youth vote and Hollywood writer’s strike.

 

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NPR's Book of the Day - Anne Enright’s ‘The Wren, The Wren’ is a family story about poetry and betrayal

Phil McDaragh is a great Irish poet; he was also a lousy husband and father, abandoning his family to pursue his writing. In Anne Enright's new novel, The Wren, The Wren, three generations of women in the McDaragh family contend with the absent patriarch's complicated legacy. Enright spoke with NPR's Scott Simon about writing fiction about a great writer, and how the poet's bad behavior in his personal life impacts the McDaragh women's own passions, years down the road.

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Read Me a Poem - “Lullaby” by May Sarton

Amanda Holmes reads May Sarton’s “Lullaby.” 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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