Migrants travel by boat for hundreds of miles from Africa to reach Spain’s Canary Islands. After surviving the dangerous crossing, many are stranded for months and unable to work.
10 years on from the Paris climate agreement, has it helped? Also, an international drought experiment, insights from 2D water, and social distancing… in ants.
Presenter: Roland Pease
Producer: Alex Mansfield
Production Coordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth
(Image: Small bushfire. Credit: Lea Scaddan via Getty Images).
Plus: Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica reports best quarter yet, says consumer appetite for AI glasses remains strong. And Foxconn shares rise after chairman meets with OpenAI and plans to meet with Nvidia. Julie Chang hosts.
In this rough labor market, job seekers are more vulnerable to scams. We’ve all seen those texts, right? The ones offering jobs with suspiciously high pay for suspiciously little work? On today’s show, Marketplace’s Kristin Schwab joins Kimberly to share what happened when she replied to one of these scam messages. Plus, why AI and the shift to remote work has fueled the rise in job scams.
All you need to know about Laszlo Krasznahorka: the Hungarian winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature, a gloriously anarchic celebration of an Italian children’s classic, an Icelandic murder mystery set on the Spanish island of Tenerife,
poet and musician Matthew McDonald, and a race up a Slovenian mountain, pursued by Tadej Pogacar.
The U.S. has been a model for other aspiring democracies since 1776. At the same time, the idea of America as the leader of the democratic world has also had a unifying effect at home. It’s what has kept this diverse country of many faiths and ethnicities together, and it has been our national identity. But with Trump actively undermining those ideals, what will we be unified around? Plus, the potential new whites-favored refugee policy, Trump’s psychological comfort to the Russian war effort, Hegseth got himself a state media press room at the Pentagon, JD is totally cool with lots of Nazi talk—and could the administration be trying to start a war in Venezuela so it can expand its militaristic crackdown on the streets here?
Now, the latest round of layoffs all but wipes out the Office of Special Education Programs. So, what does that mean for the millions of kids who rely on these services?
In this episode, Rivers and Sam are THRILLED to welcome comedian Lisa Chanoux to the show. We kick things off with a discussion about the recent, boring movies from The Rock and Jared Leto. Next, the we try out an energy drink called "DNA," whose CEO also owns a company called "Grinder," but, like, not that one. We take a look at a Silicon Valley mogul's mysterious closed-door lectures on the Antichrist, and Lisa gives us a tour of her hometown, El Paso, Texas. Speaking of Texas, ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man" is our JAM OF THE WEEK. Tune in, folks. You're gonna love it! Follow Lisa Chanoux on all forms of social media @LisaChanoux and go see Chatterbox Comedy Night every Sunday night at The Chatterbox in Covina, California. Follow our show @TheGoodsPod on absolutely everything! Rivers is @RiversLangley Sam is @SamHarter666 Carter is @Carter_Glascock Subscribe on Patreon for an UNCUT video version of the show as well as HOURS of bonus content! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod
