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Harrison Tassopoulos discusses Colin Kaepernick's NFL protest and its fallout with us. Also on this episode: Trump's decision to rescind DACA and Hobby Lobby's inadvertent purchase of looted antiquities.
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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
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
Reid Baker returns for some back-and-forth on Evergreen College and how that controversy illuminates different approaches to equality. We also discuss Colorado's Masterpiece Cakes legal battle and how we would prepare our underground bunkers in the event of an apocalypse.
Note for chapter skippers: Our first segments runs about 20 minutes this time instead of the typical 15.
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Belly Yoga & Beyond (Amy's beleaguered and understanding goat yoga instructor) Selected Links: HuffPo: Evergreen State College Implosion NYTimes Opinion: When the Left Turns on its Own The Joe Rogan Experience: Bret Weinstein The Hidden Brain: Shankar Vedantam on Unconscious Biases Harvard: Implicit Bias Self-test The Economist: Can a baker refuse to make a gay wedding cake? WaPo: Supreme Court Takes Colorado Baker Case BuzzFeed: Luxury Bunker Survival Quiz
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
Two of our friends join this week, Ihsane Aziz and Alexis Kanter. We ask what exactly feels so wonderful about Tom Holland's Lip Sync Battle performance? What does Michael Cohen's tweet showing his daughter in lingerie demonstrate about our male political leaders' attempts to talk about their wives and daughters? And do Melania and Ivanka's Trump wardrobe choices in Saudi Arabia respect or challenge that culture?
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Selected Links: YouTube: Tom Holland on Lip Sync Battle Tablet Magazine: Trump’s Lawyer Puts Daughter on Display Melania, Ivanka, and Michelle Obama in Saudi Arabia (photos from Reuters, Getty Images, and AP, respectively):
Grace Weil joins us to ask: What should Americans know about Cinco de Mayo before we celebrate it? Do human rights actually matter; a conversation on Rex Tillerson's state department guidelines. And how and why does Serena Williams' pregnancy matter to the media?
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Selected Links: CNN: 5 things to know about Cinco de Mayo The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: The Real Cinco de Mayo BuzzFeed: This Bar Set Up A Wall For Cinco De Mayo Brookings: Tillerson says goodbye to human rights diplomacy Politico: Priebus: Human rights do matter to White House Bitch Media: Not Your Belly, Not Your Business Ecosia.org FreeRice.com
This week with Maggie Ong'ele we discuss: dating in the age of Trump, the iconography of Beyoncé, and did Millennials sabotage Hillary?
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NPR: When Dating In The Era Of Divisive Politics, Both Sides Stick To Themselves Bitch Media: Black Venus Rising Washington City Paper: Who You Calling a Bama? Remezcla: Followers of the Yoruba Faith Reflect on the Impact of Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ WaPo: Trump team narrowing search for State Department’s No. 2 official Hindenburg World Radio Day She's Running Podcast |
