Citations Needed | May 20, 2020 | TranscriptBarack Obama holding his prized BlackBerry in 2014. (Larry Downing / Reuters)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-110-the-shiny-object-psychology-of-american-capitalist-innovation[/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. Of course you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, and if you are able to at this time become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help through Patreon is not only so appreciated, it is literally the way that we are able to keep the show going. We are 100 percent listener funded, we have no ads, no commercials, no corporate sponsors of any kind and so you, our wonderful, amazing listeners obsequious falling down, you are the ones that keep the show going.Adam: We’re doing the PBS thing where we just flatter you. You’re so smart and so intelligent that you support your local podcast, left-wing...

Citations Needed | May 6, 2020 | TranscriptAaron Davidson / WireImage[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-109-self-help-culture-and-the-rise-of-corporate-happiness-monitoring[/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. Of course 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. If you are able to become a patron that would be amazing, of course, these are difficult times but if you are able to do that, it is so appreciated. It does keep the show going. It allows us to keep putting out full length episodes and the News Briefs for our Patreon supporters. All your help really is just so appreciated.Adam: And as always, if you subscribe to our Patreon you have 50-plus or so News Briefs, which are sort of mini-episodes we’ve done throughout the years — God, I can say “the years” now, we’re old! — you can go back...