30 Jan

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Citations Needed | January 30, 2019 | TranscriptMike Rowe as a scrap metal worker (credit: mikerowe.com)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-64-mike-rowes-koch-backed-working-man-affectation[/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: Thanks everyone for listening this week. You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and become a supporter of the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your support is so much appreciated through Patreon. Our Patreon supporters keep the show going. We are ad free and corporate banking free. We’d like to keep it that way. So please, if you haven’t yet and you liked the show, sign up to support. It’s very easy to do and we will love you forever for it.Adam: Yeah, you know, my birthday is March 8th, so just saying.Nima: (Laughs.) Just saying.Adam: Wouldn’t kill you, wouldn’t kill you.Nima: (Laughing.)Adam: Um, anyway.Nima: In recent years, television personality Mike Rowe, has amassed a wildly popular following due to...

23 Jan

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Citations Needed | January 23, 2019 | TranscriptM. Faroqui, left, who sold the winning Powerball ticket at a 7–11 in Chino Hills, CA, reacts with the crowd in the store on Wednesday, January 13, 2016. (credit: Grand Haven Tribune)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-63-gambling-and-neoliberal-rot-how-our-most-regressive-tax-flies-under-the-radar[/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: And now that you’re feeling up, let me take you back down.Nima: Because that’s what we do on Citations Needed. Uh, so here we go. As more and more states turned to casinos and lotteries to quote, “fill the gap” in state...

16 Jan

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Citations Needed | January 16, 2019 | Transcript“The Hyphenated American” by J. S. Pughe, published in “Puck” magazine (August 9, 1899)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-62-sanitizing-our-settler-colonial-past-with-nation-of-immigrants-rhetoric[/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 for listening everyone. Uh, you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. Your support keeps this show completely listener funded. No advertisements. We keep your ears free and clear of commercials and we would very much like to keep it that way and your support makes that possible.Adam: We get solicitations all the time from people asking us to do advertisements because —Nima: That’s true.Adam: If you reach over a certain amount people try to get you to do promotions and we want to know that we’re resisting. No mattresses, no websites.Nima: Right. No snack packs.Adam: No snack packs. Anyway, that’s possible because of the...

09 Jan

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Citations Needed | January 9, 2019 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-61-what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-msnbc-part-ii-a-rebuttal[/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: Happy New Year, everyone! We are back. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday — maybe even a relaxing one. Thank you all for joining us now in 2019. For those of you who may be new to Citations Needed in this new year, you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and you can support the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Adam: This episode’s going to be a little bit different than usual, but we’re excited about it. We had an inquiry from a journalist and former host of MSNBC’s The Cycle from 2012 to 2015, Touré, who now himself has a podcast. He reached out to us as a big fan of the show, “but I thought your episode on MSNBC had problems.” Obviously he worked at MSNBC, so that didn’t necessarily...