Month: January 2024

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What A Day - Iowa’s Participation Awards Go To…

The Iowa caucuses are officially over. Donald Trump won as expected with just over 50 percent of the vote, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came in second and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley came in third. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy finished in fourth place, and suspended his campaign just minutes after the polls closed and then endorsed Trump. We’re joined by Eugene Scott, senior politics reporter for Axios, to break down the results and turnout in Iowa.

And in headlines: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital, the Biden Administration sent a cease-and-desist to Texas officials to stop blocking Border Patrol agents from the border, and we recap last night’s Primetime Emmy Awards.

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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #411 – “Where is Bum Farto?” with Evan Kessler

In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys are all back together at Disgraceland hangin' out with our hilarious friend, actor and comedian Evan Kessler! We start this one off with a Jamaican (maybe?) energy drink called "Raptor" with a sordid history. They've also recently begun running ads that seem more like Chevy pick-up truck commercials. Then, Rivers tells the story of the 1976 disappearance of Key West, Florida's notorious, drug-dealing fire chief, Bum Farto. That's the name. We talk about the gangs of Evan's hometown of Pomona, New York and Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" is our JAM OF THE WEEK! This one is hilarious and we can't wait for y'all to push the dang play button.  Follow Evan on all forms of social media @EvanJKessler and at http://www.evankessler.com  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 - Trump Won Iowa. Political Insider Explains Why

The polls didn't lie. Former President Donald Trump was projected to be the winner of the Iowa caucuses Monday night just about 30 minutes after they began.


In the polls, Trump had a 30-point lead, give or take, over former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as Iowans arrived at their caucus locations at 7 p.m. local time. 

Following his win, Trump told Fox News Digital that he is “greatly honored by such an early call."


"It really is an honor that, minutes after, they’ve announced I’ve won—against very credible competition—great competition, actually," Trump said.


Eli Huber, Iowa state director of Heritage Action for America, told “The Daily Signal Podcast” he is not surprised by the caucus results. 


“Based off my conversations with activists all around the state of Iowa, I'm not really surprised that President Trump, despite now being nearly four years since he was in office, continues to have a lot of the same energy that we saw back in 2020,” Huber says. 


New Hampshire voters will head to the polls Jan. 23 to cast their ballots in the first primary of the 2024 election, followed by South Carolina voters on Feb. 24.


Huber joins the show to discuss the results of the Iowa caucuses, and the leading issues on the minds of voters as they begin casting ballots for the Republican 2024 presidential nominee.




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Ologies with Alie Ward - Carcinology (CRABS) Part 1 with Adam Wall

Claw hands! Beady eyes! Pinching forces that could crack your skull! Gentleman, scholar, curator of the Natural History Museum’s crustacea collection and Carcinologist Adam Wall takes us on a tour of the museum’s crab bunker to discuss everything from the tiniest to the most hauntingly giant crabs, discovering new species, crabs that are NOT crabs, sea monkeys, hairy crabs, hermit crabs, crab dongs, crab butts, crab butters, the secret history of secret Maryland spices, Amelia Earhart rumors, giant invasive crabs in Norway, behind the scenes Hollywood crabs, and so much more. So dazzling and comprehensive and weird – we had to crack this episode in two. Make sure to catch next week’s. 

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Slate Books - How To!: The Lost Art Of Connecting

Small talk has a bad reputation. It’s boring, shallow, and awkward. Who really wants to talk about the weather, again? But, when done right, it can be a cornerstone of connection. In this episode, Carvell Wallace is joined by Susan McPherson, the author of The Lost Art of Connecting. Susan is going to help our listener, Bee, navigate the uncomfortable small talk that she endures everyday at school pickup. Along the way, we’ll learn what questions to have in our back pocket, how to turn small talk into big talk, and even how to extract ourselves from conversations that are going on too long. 


If you liked this episode, check out: How To Talk to Strangers and How To Make Humor Your Superpower


Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen.


How To’s executive producer is Derek John. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer and our producer is Rosemary Belson. 


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The Best One Yet - 🏗️“Let ‘em Build” — Minneapolis’ renter solution. Economics of the largest cruise ship. Coach Nick Saban’s football ROI.

American renters spend a record 30% of their paychecks on average on rent — But we’ll tell you how Minneapolis became a renters’ heaven.

Royal Caribbean just received the biggest cruise ship ever: It’s 5x the size of the Titanic — So we’re looking at the Cruisenomics of how (and when) it actually makes money.

And Nick Saban is done at the University of Alabama after 6 national championships there — What you don’t realize is the huge economic impact he had on Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Trump Just Won Iowa. Where’s Biden?

Biden’s poll numbers have been bad pretty much his whole presidency, but going into an election year, he looks especially weak where his party is usually strongest: young voters, Black voters, and Latino voters. What messaging unlocks some—any—enthusiasm for voting for Joe Biden again? 


Guest: Alexander Sammon, politics writer for Slate. 


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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Letting algorithms guide our path to the next great invention

Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered assistant you can keep in your pocket (but it’s not a phone).

How will AI impact scientific research? A new collaboration between Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is focused on energy storage solutions.

A US Senate hearing questions whether tech companies should be allowed to train their AI models on content produced by journalists without paying licensing fees.

Learn how to build a mechanical computer from Legos.

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Read Me a Poem - “Justice Denied in Massachusetts” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Amanda Holmes reads Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Justice Denied in Massachusetts.” 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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