Citations Needed | November 24, 2021 | Transcript“Fat Monica” (Courteney Cox, left) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) on an episode of Friends.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-149-how-fatness-became-a-cheap-joke-and-proxy-for-moral-deficiency-in-pop-culture[/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 become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. All your help through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded and run no commercials.Adam: And as always, you can rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and please, if you can, support us on Patreon, and there you will find mini-episodes for patrons that we do every now and then, little News Briefs, as well as AMAs, a newsletter, and other content that we offer there. So if you can please support us there, we very very much appreciate it, and it helps make the show sustainable and the episodes themselves free to everybody.Nima: A character played by...

Citations Needed | November 10, 2021 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-148-the-gops-rightwing-populism-rebrand-part-ii-messaging-wars-in-white-america[/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 become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. All your support through Patreon is incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded.Adam: Yes, and as always, you can rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and you can subscribe to us on Patreon which helps keep the show sustainably, keeps the episodes free. There you will find mini-episodes, we do AMA events, and other special little goodies for our patrons. We are very much grateful for the support there. If you can support us there, please do.Nima: “The elites are out to get you and your hard-earned pay.” “We’re spending too much on protecting foreign nations and not enough defending our own borders against immigrant invaders.” “China is taking your job and will...

Citations Needed | November 3, 2021 | TranscriptVenture capitalist and Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance plugs his Senate campaign on Fox News.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/the-gops-populism-rebrand-how-well-funded-charlatans-pick-off-disillusioned-lefties-part-i[/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 become a supporter of the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. All your support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded.Adam: No donors, no foundations, no billionaires, so of course, if you could help us out on Patreon we’re very much appreciative of it, it helps keeps the show not only totally 100 percent independent, it also helps us keep the episodes themselves free, and if you become a patron you get lots of mini-episodes, a newsletter, AMAs we do and live shows we do for patrons as well. So definitely check that out if you can and help support the show.Nima: “It’s not about right vs. left, but...

Citations Needed | November 1, 2021 | Transcript[Music]Nima Shirazi: Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: You can follow Citations Needed on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. All your support through Patreon is incredibly appreciated. We do these News Briefs in between our regularly scheduled episodes, oftentimes they are for our patrons, we do patron-only News Briefs, but some, like this one, are public and for everyone to enjoy. I mean, we hope everyone enjoys all of them, but because we really wanted to talk in between our kind of regularly scheduled episodes about what is going on with the Reconciliation Bill. The large, I guess, in part ‘building back better’ work.Adam: Yeah. The Building Back Better Bill.Nima: Yeah.Adam: It started off at $7.5 trillion, then went to $3.5 trillion, then went to $2 trillion, then went to $1.75 trillion.Nima: Yeah, pretty soon, it’s gonna be like $15 bucks.Adam: Yeah. So this weekend, you’ll be listening to this on Monday, Biden announced their quote-unquote...

Citations Needed | October 20, 2021 | TranscriptFormer Sec. of State Colin Powell makes a case for the US invasion of Iraq to the UN Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003. (The New York Times / James Estrin)[Music]Nima Shirazi: Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: You can follow Citations Needed on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, and become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. We are 100 percent listener funded so all your support through Patreon is incredibly appreciated. We do these News Briefs in between our regularly scheduled full length episodes when there is something breaking in the news that we feel like we just really want to talk about Adam, you and I, oftentimes when big personality, often war criminals, die, we see tons of hagiographies in the press. This week is no different. On October 18, 2021, General Colin Powell, former Secretary of State, died at the age of 84 of complications from COVID-19, and, of course, immediately the press was awash with glowing obituaries for, of course,...