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Melania
Melania Trump
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California and New York Could Decide Which Party Controls The House
The Devil Never Sleeps
Juliette Kayyem
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The Next Steps In Hurricane Helene Recovery
Wasteland
Oliver Franklin-Wallis
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The Plastic Recycling Long Con
Wasteland
Oliver Franklin-Wallis
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The Plastic Recycling Long Con
We See Each Other
Tre'vell Anderson
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North Carolina's Mark Robinson Extremism Revealed (Again)
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North Carolina's Mark Robinson Extremism Revealed (Again)
Strengthening American Democracy
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Trump’s Lies About Haitian Immigrants Create Chaos In Springfield, Ohio
The Chaos Machine
Max Fisher
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When Countries Ban Social Media
Undue Burden
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Trump Alienates His Base With Flip Flopping On Reproductive Rights
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The Gender Gap Is Widening In The 2024 Election
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The Most of Nora Ephron
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Arthur's Reading Trick (Step into Reading)
The podcasters discussed the final episode of the TV show "Arthur", in which the titular character grew up to be a graphic novelist who publishes a series of books called "Arthur and DW". The character DW became a traffic cop.
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It turns out that Arthur grew up to be a bearded graphic novelist and in a meta twist, he publishes a series of books called Arthur and DW
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Episode: How Putin's Aggressions Are Playing Out In Ukraine
The podcasters discussed the final episode of the TV show "Arthur", in which the titular character grew up to be a graphic novelist who publishes a series of books called "Arthur and DW". The character DW became a traffic cop.
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It turns out that Arthur grew up to be a bearded graphic novelist and in a meta twist, he publishes a series of books called Arthur and DW
The Chiffon Trenches
A Memoir
Andre Leon Talley wrote about the interviewer in his biography, comparing their first interview to Talley's first interview with Carl Lagerfeld.
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In 2020 I found out that he wrote about me and that moment in his biography The Chiffon Trenches.
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Episode: You Can't Spell Ivanka Without Subpoena
Andre Leon Talley wrote about the interviewer in his biography, comparing their first interview to Talley's first interview with Carl Lagerfeld.
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In 2020 I found out that he wrote about me and that moment in his biography The Chiffon Trenches.
Prophet of Discontent
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism (The Morehouse College King Collection Series on Civil and Human Rights Ser.)
The book explores Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of capitalism and how it disenfranchises the working class, particularly focusing on the concept of racial capitalism. It highlights King's views on economic inequality and the need for systemic change.
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So we wanted to dive deeper into this economic legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.'s words and ideas. We have with us today the co-authors of the book, Profit of Discontent, Martin Luther King Jr. and th...
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Episode: The Anti-Capitalist Legacy Of MLK Jr.
The book explores Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of capitalism and how it disenfranchises the working class, particularly focusing on the concept of racial capitalism. It highlights King's views on economic inequality and the need for systemic change.
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So we wanted to dive deeper into this economic legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.'s words and ideas. We have with us today the co-authors of the book, Profit of Discontent, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism. They are Andrew Douglas and my personal friend, Jared Loggins.
So to get us started, I'm putting you on the spot, Jared. This is what you get for being my friend. Let's first define the term racial capitalism for the people. What does that mean in regular, degular terms? And what exactly did King have to say about it?
in some ways that ideology is at odds with the King that we tell in the book and the King that increasingly saw racial inequality, economic inequality as a built-in future of capitalism.
The reality is that King, you know, he was a revolutionary. You know, he fought and died in struggle for the beloved community.
Andrew J. Douglas at Jarrett Loggins, co-authors of the book, Prophet of Discontent, Martin Luther King Jr. and the critique of racial capitalism.
Kon-Tiki (Enriched Classics)
The book, published in 1948, recounts the author's 1947 raft voyage across the Pacific Ocean, mentioned in a Jeopardy question that Amy Schneider answered correctly to win over a million dollars.
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Norwegian Independence Day and a vast blue sea are mentioned in chapter one of a 1948 book by this man.
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Episode: The Test Is In The Mail
The book, published in 1948, recounts the author's 1947 raft voyage across the Pacific Ocean, mentioned in a Jeopardy question that Amy Schneider answered correctly to win over a million dollars.
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Norwegian Independence Day and a vast blue sea are mentioned in chapter one of a 1948 book by this man.
I Hear You
The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships
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Rain of Terror (The Destroyer Book 75)
It discussed the effects of the 9/11 era on American society and its connection to the rise of Donald Trump; the author shared their personal experience of the events of 9/11 and their reflections on the war on terror.
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Rain of Terror, how the 9-11 era destabilized America and produced Trump.
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Episode: America's Forever Wars With Spencer Ackerman
It discussed the effects of the 9/11 era on American society and its connection to the rise of Donald Trump; the author shared their personal experience of the events of 9/11 and their reflections on the war on terror.
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Rain of Terror, how the 9-11 era destabilized America and produced Trump.
you should pick it up ASAP.
The Last Slave Ship
The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
Valencia Ann Abbott shared that she cried while reading this book in grad school, highlighting the emotional impact of learning about difficult historical events and emphasizing that history is not always positive or easy to process.
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When I read the book The Last Slaveship. I told them that I cried every single chapter when I had to read this in grad school because it just tore me up.
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Episode: Educators On Critical Race Theory
Valencia Ann Abbott shared that she cried while reading this book in grad school, highlighting the emotional impact of learning about difficult historical events and emphasizing that history is not always positive or easy to process.
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When I read the book The Last Slaveship. I told them that I cried every single chapter when I had to read this in grad school because it just tore me up.
Modern Manhood
Conversations About the Complicated World of Being a Good Man Today
It was mentioned as a book written by the guest host Cleo Stiller, described as a Peabody Award and Emmy Award-nominated journalist, and listeners were encouraged to buy it.
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She is a Peabody Award and Emmy Award nominated journalist, author of the book Modern Manhood, Conversations About the Complicated World of Being a Good Man Today, go buy it.
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Episode: Heatwave Back At It
It was mentioned as a book written by the guest host Cleo Stiller, described as a Peabody Award and Emmy Award-nominated journalist, and listeners were encouraged to buy it.
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She is a Peabody Award and Emmy Award nominated journalist, author of the book Modern Manhood, Conversations About the Complicated World of Being a Good Man Today, go buy it.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
A Novel
The speaker impulsively bought this book multiple times on Amazon after a night of drinking. They seemed to have no particular reason for wanting to read it.
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Some of the books I've ordered for myself multiple times so I had multiple copies of how much these hills is gold by Pam Zhang.
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Episode: Keep Austin Warm
The speaker impulsively bought this book multiple times on Amazon after a night of drinking. They seemed to have no particular reason for wanting to read it.
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Some of the books I've ordered for myself multiple times so I had multiple copies of how much these hills is gold by Pam Zhang.
PANDEMIC
Paintings by KRIEV
The podcast hosts jokingly mentioned New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's book about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. They alluded to the controversy surrounding the book and its accuracy.
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New York Governor, one half of CNN's top sketch comedy duo and author of the book How I Absolutely Decimated the PANDEMIC by Myself or something like that, I guess.
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Episode: It's The End Of Impeachment As We Know It
The podcast hosts jokingly mentioned New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's book about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. They alluded to the controversy surrounding the book and its accuracy.
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New York Governor, one half of CNN's top sketch comedy duo and author of the book How I Absolutely Decimated the PANDEMIC by Myself or something like that, I guess.
Wasteland
The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
It was mentioned as a 2023 book that details the dirty truth about what we throw away; the author was interviewed in the podcast.
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It's certainly true that for a long time, the plastics industry has known that not a lot of recycling is actually happening.
— Episode: The Plastic Recycling Long Con
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Episode: The Plastic Recycling Long Con
It was mentioned as a 2023 book that details the dirty truth about what we throw away; the author was interviewed in the podcast.
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It's certainly true that for a long time, the plastics industry has known that not a lot of recycling is actually happening.
They've known that a lot of these products are not very easily recyclable and that when they are recyclable, they degrade so that they're not, you know, infinite closed loop things where you can keep living on forever and ever.
And a lot of these cases that these products are so low value or they're so difficult to recycle that what you're producing is essentially worthless.
One of the things that really shocked me was the way in which a lot of these companies have over the decades systematically made promises about recycling, knowing that they were going to break them.
I use in the book, I give the example of the Coca-Cola company, which in the 1990s was making these big pledges that it was going to make its bottles out of recycled plastic. And then a couple of years go by and the economy takes a downturn and they kind of quietly shelve this promise. They never do it. And then it happens again in the early 2000s. You know, they make a big recycling promise and everybody reports on it. And then it quietly doesn't happen at least four or five times in the past two decades, they've done this and they've never actually followed through.
Wasteland
The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters
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The Devil Never Sleeps
Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
The book's author, Juliette Kayyem, was interviewed about disaster recovery following Hurricane Helene. She is the faculty chair of the Homeland Security Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and wrote this book.
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And the author of 'The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters,' explains what the next steps in recovery will look like.
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Episode: The Next Steps In Hurricane Helene Recovery
The book's author, Juliette Kayyem, was interviewed about disaster recovery following Hurricane Helene. She is the faculty chair of the Homeland Security Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and wrote this book.
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And the author of 'The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters,' explains what the next steps in recovery will look like.
She's the faculty chair of the Homeland Security Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the author of The Devil Never Sleeps, Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters.
That was my conversation with Juliet Kayyem, faculty chair of the Homeland Security Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the author of the book The Devil Never Sleeps, Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters.
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This NAACP Image Award-winning book was also suggested as a gift and is available for purchase or at local libraries.
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and the NAACP Image Award winning, Historically Black Phrases from I Ain't One of Your Little Friends to Who All Gone Be There are both available wherever good books are sold and bad ones too. Also at...
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Episode: North Carolina's Mark Robinson Extremism Revealed...
This NAACP Image Award-winning book was also suggested as a gift and is available for purchase or at local libraries.
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and the NAACP Image Award winning, Historically Black Phrases from I Ain't One of Your Little Friends to Who All Gone Be There are both available wherever good books are sold and bad ones too. Also at your local library.
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