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Amy, Kari, and Kristen discuss Hurricane Harvey and its impact followed by lighter topics on managerial challenges and micronations. Happy Labor Day, y'all!
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Selected Links: WaPo: Melania Trump’s heels Harvard Business Review: Basic Competence Can Be a Strategy Atlas Obscura: Micronations Republic of Molossia
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Kari and Amy comment on Charlottesville and discuss Confederate monuments. Planned topics for the week include a perspective on North Korea and our opinions on Disney's decisions to leave Netflix for their own streaming service.
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Selected Links: Southern Poverty Law Center: Whose Heritage? Vox on YouTube: The growing North Korean nuclear threat, explained NPR: North Korea Says It Won't Fire Missiles At Guam After All BuzzFeed: Disney Is Ending Its Netflix Deal, Will Launch Its Own Streaming Services Charli XCX: Boys Ingrid Michaelson: Time Machine Ingrid Michaelson: Girls Chase Boys
Angel Perez joins us to ask: Is it finally time to quit Uber? Why are certain types of comedy popular? And is Impossible Foods the future of plant-based "meat"?
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Selected Links: Business Insider: Uber's Bad Year The Guardian: Uber's sexual harassment case shines light on a startup's culture of defiance Impossible Foods Vox: Why this "bloody" veggie burger may become the Tesla of food Amy's taste test pictures below:
BJ Vann, CEO and Co-founder of Impact House, is our guest this week. We discuss the idea behind BJ's start-up, the struggle that is the creative process, and ask how we feel about the Babadook as a new gay icon.
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Selected Links: Impact House: Where Change Goes to Work Brain Pickings: Ira Glass on the Taste Gap The New Yorker: The Babadook Is a Frightening, Fabulous New Gay Icon LA Times: The Babadook as an LGBT icon makes sense. No, really Support: Dominican Republic Service Trip benefiting Dove Missions and the Dominican Starfish Foundation
Congressional candidate Danielle Pellett joins us for a heavy science topic: are liquid fluoride thorium reactors the future of energy policy? Also, what happens when women legislate and is Mark Zuckerberg considering a political run?
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Promoted Links: Dani for Congress She's Running Podcast Topic Links: YouTube: Liquid Fluorine Thorium Reactors in Five Minutes Rutgers CAWP: American Female Officeholders in 2017 NPR: It's The No. 1 Country For Women In Politics — But Not In Daily Life NYT Opinion: What Happens When Women Legislate The Atlantic: Would Electing More Women Fix Congress? Buzzfeed: Selling Mark Zuckerberg
Kristen returns! We debate decisiveness vs. analysis, the alt-right's backlash again Trump, and what was behind Pepsi's disastrous ad?
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Selected Links: WaPo: Trump’s puzzling blame-Obama statement on the Syria tragedy WaPo: Obama issues Syria a ‘red line’ warning on chemical weapons Slate: Why the Alt-Right Hate Trump's Syria Strike NyMag: After Trump’s Syria Air Strikes, the Alt-Right Is Not Alright WaPo: Pepsi shows how America loves to erase black women SNL: Pepsi Commercial
Topics this week: Can we justify American CEO pay versus our minimum wage? Coke used consumer data collection to develop a new flavor of Sprite. And is education making liberals dumb? Also Amy effuses love for her friends so I guess that's our Valentine's Day tie-in.
Kristen Lega guests again in our first official episode.
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Selected Links: NYTimes: Why Are the Highly Educated so Liberal? Big Think: How Too Much Education Can Result in Ignorance HBR: The Dangers of Confidence HBR: Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? |
