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The great game for robots escalates; updates on Elon Musk. The Louvre heist is hilarious. Your grocery store conspires against you. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.
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Vermont’s four Abenaki bands face ongoing pushback as they work to assert their Native American identity. With state recognition, the tribes enjoy certain hunting and fishing rights and the ability to list artwork as Native made. The Odanak First Nation in Canada is speaking out on social media and at press conferences, public events, and even at the United Nations, saying the people in Vermont claiming Abenaki blood have no connection to the Abenaki name and are only exploiting a legitimate and respected culture. It’s one of the remaining battlegrounds in the often-contentious discussions over identity.
GUESTS
Chief Rick O’Bomsawin (Odanak First Nation), Chief of the Abenaki Council of Odanak
Chief Don Stevens (Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation)
Margaret Bruchac (Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation), professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania
Break 1 Music: Seeing Two (song) Deerlady (band) Greatest Hits (album)
Break 2 Music: Only A Whisper (song) Joe H Henry (artist) Real Things (album)
Mia and Gare discuss the wide range of reactions to Mamdani’s victory and see some truly astonishing meltdowns.
Sources:
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600718/wall-street-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor
https://defector.com/lets-check-in-with-people-who-threatened-to-leave-zohran-mamdanis-nyc
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/democrats-republicans-reaction-mamdani-win
https://lindseyboylan4ny.medium.com/my-story-of-working-with-governor-cuomo-e664d4814b4e
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/lindsey_boylan
https://indypendent.org/2025/07/we-will-beat-these-monsters-lindsey-boylan-reacts-to-cuomos-defeat/
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BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist Zing Tsjeng uncover how O’Leary - who neither founded Ryanair nor intended to work in aviation - redefined the airline industry. Through radical cost-cutting, lightning-fast plane turnarounds, and headline-grabbing stunts, he transformed the company into a disruptive, ultra-low-cost giant. From his early ventures to his rise as the face of budget flying, this episode charts how his bold tactics reshaped how millions travel across Europe.
Good Bad Billionaire is the podcast that explores the lives of the super-rich and famous, tracking their wealth, philanthropy, business ethics and success. There are leaders who made their money in Silicon Valley, on Wall Street and in high street fashion. From iconic celebrities and CEOs to titans of technology, the podcast unravels tales of fortune, power, economics, ambition and moral responsibility, before asking the audience to decide if they are good, bad, or just billionaires.
“The more we look into social structures, the more many of us realize we don't fit into them," says So Mayer, author of the new book Bad Language, "So each phrase or set of vocabulary is another piece of that dismantlement.” We discuss finding vocabulary for oneself, coming out as a speech act, growing up under Section 28, busting through oppression and shame, and joyous listening.
Content note: in the episode we refer to sexual abuse or crimes against consent, and to suicide, but we do not go into any detail about these things, or describe any experiences. Also there are some category A and B swears.
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This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman, on the unceded ancestral and traditional territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Martin Austwick. Download his own songs at palebirdmusic.com and on Bandcamp, and listen to his podcasts Song By Song and Neutrino Watch.
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Can our heroes best the mighty beasts who await them in the swamps? Who will Trant throw a bomb at?
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- Occulture, Technomancy vs Tradition, and the Role of Magick in 2025
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40
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Sources:
The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly
Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)
Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf, The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025.)
Austin Sarat, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.)
The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)
Dick Reavis, “Charlie Brooks’ Last Words,” Texas Monthly (February 1983.)
The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy
Breanna Ehrlich, “The Last Face Death Row Inmates See,” Rolling Stone, March 29, 2025 (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/death-row-reverend-jeff-hood-1235305460/)
Anand Giridharadas, The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2014.)
Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-287g-ice-trump-abbott/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71875910/1/tangipa-v-newsom/
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/11/proposition-50-overnight-results/
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115492361756063244
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/522166327/202133199349305758/full
https://archive.vn/uxkws#selection-799.0-808.0
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript
https://archive.vn/uxkws#selection-799.0-808.0
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript
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Throat-singing Inuit sisters Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk Mackay released their sixth album, offering a soundtrack to the traditional stories they grew up with. “Legends” blends PIQSIQ’s cultural improvisational technique with sophisticated studio production.
First Nations Cree singer LOV is on tour, propelled by the success of the video releases for the singles, “Matriarch” and “Mama“. Her upbeat soulful, rhythmic style invokes Amy Winehouse, but LOV has a message all her own drawn from her roots on her Treaty Six Reserve.
Country crooner Blaine Bailey barely blinked after getting eliminated from the musical competition reality show, “The Road“. He hit the road with his own tour singing songs from his album, “Indian Country“, with a classic sound built around lyrics full of Native pride.
GUESTS
Blaine Bailey (United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians), singer and songwriter
LOV (Plains Cree from Treaty 6 Territory from the Poundmaker Cree Nation), singer and songwriter
Tiffany Ayalik (Inuit), singer and songwriter for the duo PIQSIQ
Inuksuk Mackay (Inuit), singer and songwriter for the duo PIQSIQ
Break 1 Music: Good Buddy (song) Fontine (artist) Good Buddy (album)
Break 2 Music: Traditional Side Step Song (song) Little Otter (artist) Side Step Songs (album)