Month: June 2024

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Big Technology Podcast - How Walt Mossberg Built A Deep Relationship With Steve Jobs

Walt Mossberg is a legendary tech journalist and longtime columnist for the Wall Street Journal. This is a preview of our premium Big Tech War Stories Podcast where Mossberg joins to discuss how he formed connections with industry titans like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos, and what drove their thinking and strategies. In this preview we cover Jobs, discussing his optimism, focus, and unending curiosity that led to long hours of conversation with Mossberg via phone. We also discuss the relationship between the tech industry and the press, where Mossberg has some interesting thoughts, and even some optimism of his own.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: North Korean Poop Balloons, Sling-Shot Crime, Fast Food Becomes a Luxury

Why is North Korea sending balloons filled with trash and poop over the border? A new poll reveals most Americans consider fast food a luxury. A former mayor in South Dakota is charged with three murders. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Biden Confuses Israel

What the heck happened on Friday with Joe Biden's speech apparently saying Israel had agreed to some plan to end the war in Gaza with Hamas still in power—or maybe not still in power—or maybe kind of still in power? What did Israel do to give Biden the opening to move the goalpoasts in this way? And what will the Hunter Biden trial mean for the president? Give a listen.

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Focus on Africa - South Africa elections: The ANC loses its majority. What happens next?

Following last week's elections, South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, has lost its majority. The ANC now needs a coalition partner to ally with. It's begun closed-door negotiations with its political opponents, but who will it choose and why?

Also Nigeria's public workers begin an indefinite nationwide strike following failed negotiations with the government

And have you heard of 'adaptive' clothing? It's a new much needed fashion trend, helping people with disabilities to shop with ease.

Presenter: Richard Kagoe Producers; Rob Wilson, Charles Gitonga, Susan Gachuhi, Yvette Twagiramariya and Bella Hassan Senior Journalist: Karnie Sharp Technical Producer: Jonathan Greer Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

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Native America Calling - Monday, June 3, 2024 – Prepare for election misinformation

Is there really a mass of Chinese immigrants forming an army within the United States? Are there legions of ineligible voters deciding elections? Are the people you disagree with politically getting influenced by Russian agents? Anymore, news consumers can choose where they get their facts from - and increasingly those facts are in dispute. A new poll by the Media Insight Project finds 53% of those asked think news organizations will report inaccuracies or misinformation about the upcoming election. We will get some clues about what Native news consumers should look out for, and what news organizations could do to restore trust in their products.
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CBS News Roundup - 06/03/2024 | World News Roundup

Jury selection begins for Hunter Biden's trial in Delaware. Massive California wildfire. Mexico gets it first female president. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Bad Faith - Episode 377 Promo – We Are The Leaders We’ve Been Looking For (w/ Eddie Glaude)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast   Princeton Professor of African American studies Eddie Glaude Jr. returns to Bad Faith to discuss what he told students at historically Black Morehouse College in advance of Biden's commencement address, why he's now ambivalent about his 2016 openness to voting third party in deep red and deep blue states, how to break free of the "vote blue no matter who" mindset, Cornel West and political pragmatism, and more. One of Briahna's all-time favorite guests remains one of her favorite interlocutors in this, his second appearance.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Six Lung Collapses, Then A Rare Disease Diagnosis

Thirty million people live with a rare disease in the United States. And for many of them, it often takes years to get a diagnosis. For one Chicago woman, those years were marked by uncertainty and doctors’ dismissal of her growing pain as she experienced lung collapse after lung collapse. She was eventually diagnosed with a rare form of endometriosis. Reset sits down with her to hear her story and to talk about how women navigate physical pain and the medical system. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.