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Sep 30 2024 22 ep. 74 mins 5
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ex-VICE News reporter, ex-UCLA professor calling my friends to find out what cool and weird stuff is happening in the world.

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Arshad Nadeem: Pakistan will never be the same (with Mustafa Mirza)

Sep 30 2024 29 mins  
This one was recorded just after the Olympics. I was talking about having b-boys and b-girls in the Olympics and how that was kiinida complicated now and then our guest, documentary filmmaker Mustafa Mirza comes in with potentially the most important thing that’s happened in Pakistan sportswise in a long time, and what happens now that javelin is on the map for the 5th largest po

$250M from Google ain’t gonna cut it: can journalists get paid? w/ Matt Pearce

Sep 21 2024 37 mins  
warning: you’re about to listen to two journalists talk about the news. But the news sucks! you say — so why should we care? Well, this $250 million deal might have just made it worse. Counterintuitive, but Matt Pearce (ex LA Times) has a pretty compelling argument. We talk about this, and AI, and a bunch of other stuff.Keep in mind that this is a pretty complicated topic, and

About Portland's '$4 MILLION graffiti war' (Chaos Town interview)

May 24 2024 59 mins  
Chaos Town has been documenting the wildest parts of Portland for a year now. From stripper yoga to the 'penis bush lady' to sideshows – and now, the best look at what is truly happening in Portland's $4m graffiti war. if you haven't already watched their documentary, do that first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7npnxP_6poAIn the doc, Chaos Town embedded with an up-and-coming w

buying Android tablets in prison w/ Gaby Caplan

May 20 2024 40 mins  
Prisons are constantly going on lockdown because of staff shortages, which means that prisoners can't use the phones. This makes tablet computers sold to incarcerated people are all the more crucial to let their loved ones on the outside know they are safe – but Gaby Caplan has discovered in her reporting for WIRED that federal prisons nationwide seem to have enacted a policy of

Whatsapp calls from Gaza + Kendrick v Drake + a documentary w/ Seb Walker

May 09 2024 64 mins  
How do you make a documentary about Gaza … when they won't let you into Gaza? A mix of OSINT, protests, and Whatsapp calls with a journalist trapped in Rafah.Seb Walker (former DC Bureau Chief of VICE News) hosted a documentary called A Hidden War, from Scripps News and Bellingcat. And yes, we talk about Kendrick v Lamar (a tiny bit), but mostly Macklemore.We get into what it was

the chemical attack(?) at Columbia University ft Anna Kook and Mustafa Mirza

May 03 2024 49 mins  
The campus protests are a recent news obsession in the US. But did you hear when a couple students (and former Israel Defense Force members) allegedly sprayed a chemical that sent a number of protesters to the hospital?This was back in January, but it took AJ+ over two months to finally put out a report. There's a reason for that, which we get into in the podcast. This is the defin

Are athletes killing sports journalism? with Joshua Hersh

Apr 04 2024 29 mins  
As respected sports shows like HBO’s Real Sports die, and ESPN and Sports Illustrated are continually gutted, a new form of sports coverage is rising: shows run by the athletes themselves. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily, but there are some caveats. This session’s guest is Joshua Hersh, former correspondent and senior producer at VICE News, and current editor at Columbia J

Weediquette's Krishna Andavolu on Biden, interviewing cops, and pot journalism

Mar 27 2024 67 mins  
Krishna Andavolu and his show Weediquette on VICE helped pioneer not only a new generation of weed reporting, but also helped shift attitudes toward marijuana policy, legislation, and culture. He jumped on the stream to talk about his past work, the current state of weed in the US, and to make some predictions about how cannabis may figure into the 2024 election as a Biden campaign

pornhub vs Texas, tiktok ban, the library cop, and Shrimp Jesus

Mar 20 2024 119 mins  
It's been a weird few weeks on the Internet. I brought on Jason Koebler, cofounder of 404 Media (and former EIC of Motherboard, VICE's tech vertical), to talk about it. The topics are all from 404media.co . Here are the links:Pornhub pulling out of Texas: https://www.404media.co/pornhub-blocked-texas/A cop looking for books to ban in an library: https://www.404media.co/police-bodyc

does Biden have a Palestine problem? (w Evan McMorris-Santoro)

Mar 13 2024 59 mins  
the 'uncommitted' vote in Michigan is starting to surprise people, including the organizers of the movement itself. I brought on Evan (former VICE News, CNN, and other places), currently at NOTUS.org, to talk about his reporting on the activists.Read the article he co-authored here: https://www.notus.org/biden-2024/uncommitted-delegate-biden-super-tuesdayOther articles referenced: