12 Dec

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Citations Needed | December 12, 2018 | TranscriptHouston ISD police staff take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge via Houston Independent School District[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-60-kitten-rescues-lip-syncing[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed, a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook: Citations Needed and support us through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your support is so appreciated. We are a completely listener-supported show and we would love to stay that way, so thank you everyone for your ongoing support and I hope it does continue so that we can continue.Adam: Yeah, thanks so much for the support we have and this holiday season, if you’re giving the gift, I guess it’s a pretty weird gift to give someone, but you should say, ‘I donated’ or ‘I supported Citations Needed on your behalf.’Nima: And I’m sure they will love that.Adam: This is the hot new gift item. Imagine your loved one hearing their name...

05 Dec

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Citations Needed | December 5, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-59-national-pastimes-mindless-militarism-in-american-sports[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Thank you everyone for listening this week. You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook: Citations Needed and support us through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. That is us and all of your support is so much appreciated. It helps the show keep going. If you haven’t joined up, please do. We really do appreciate all the help that we can get.Adam: Military worship is so ingrained in sports, it’s difficult to know when exactly and how exactly we got to this point where it’s so mindless, so perfunctory and so excessive.Nima: Yeah. “The Star Spangled Banner” is played before baseball games. “God Bless America” is now played during the seventh inning stretch. And, uh, also most games even feature a sixth inning salute to “the veterans” sponsored no less by the United States’...