14 Dec

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Citations Needed | December 14, 2022 | TranscriptKevin Costner, Graham Greene and others on the set of ‘Dances With Wolves’ (1990)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-172-the-foundational-myth-machine-indigenous-peoples-of-north-america-and-hollywood[/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: You can get about 130 or so mini episodes, News Briefs we do just for patrons, as well as newsletters and other fun goodies, and any support there is very very appreciated. We do no advertising or any kind of grants or foundations or anything. We are 100 percent supported by our listeners. So if you can, if you listen to the show and you like it, please help us out there, we’d be very grateful.Nima: Soldiers from the US Cavalry defeat the Plains Indians, securing new territory for...

16 Nov

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Citations Needed | November 16, 2022 | TranscriptDemcratic strategist James Carville slams ‘wokeness’ in Democratic party on CNN’s Smerconish in May 2021 (CNN)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-171-the-vacuity-of-radical-libs-forced-voters-into-the-arms-of-the-right-discourse[/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 incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded. Also, if you’re so inclined, you can grab some Citations Needed merch from our merch store at Bonfire.com. Just search for Citations Needed.Adam: And as always you can help us out and subscribe on Patreon. There you’ll find 120 mini episodes that we’ve done throughout the years as well as a newsletter, extensive show notes and other goodies.Nima: “How the Left Created Trump” revealed Rob Hoffman in Politico in November 2016. “Blame liberals for the rise of Donald Trump,” insisted S.E. Cupp in the Chicago Tribune the year...

09 Nov

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Citations Needed | November 9, 2022 | TranscriptAndrew Yang[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-170-the-shallow-audience-flattering-appeal-of-the-neither-right-nor-left-guy[/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 incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded. We do not have any advertisements, we do not run any commercials, we do not read any ad copy sent to us by a marketing department or any other department, the way we are able to do that is thanks to listeners like you.Adam: Yes, support on Patreon where you get access to over 120 little mini-episodes we have for patrons-only, newsletters, detailed show notes and other little goodies. As well as our undying gratitude and if you’re a critic level supporter we will read your name and sing your praises and write epics and tales about you.Nima: That’s right. Odes....

05 Nov

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Citations Needed | October 28, 2022 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-fentanyl-in-our-halloween-candy-and-liberal-messaging-failures-of-the-overdose-crisis[/embed][Music]Nima Shirazi: Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. 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 so incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded. We do these News Briefs in between our regularly scheduled full length episodes when, oh, I don’t know Adam, drug dealers from Mexico are putting drugs in our kids’ Skittles.Adam: And China, don’t forget.Nima: Oh right. It’s also the Chinese.Adam: ‘China.’ The Chinese, the Mexican cartels.Nima: Yes, the cartels are out to get our kids, and what is happening, we hear from our politicians and the press, is that we now have to look out for brightly colored fentanyl pills that are going to be snuck into our kids’ Halloween candy — for what purpose? I don’t know, getting them addicted and then murdering them.[Begin Clip Montage]Woman #1: Federal authorities want you to be aware of so-called rainbow fentanyl pills. The DEA...

05 Nov

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Citations Needed | October 19, 2022 | TranscriptAdam Tuss reports on “staggering” levels of fare evasion for NBC 4, Washington DC.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-dc-medias-fare-evasion-meltdown[/embed][Music]Nima Shirazi: Hi, everyone. This is Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: And I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Once again, before we get to this News Brief that you are trying to listen to, apologies in advance, we’re excited to announce that tomorrow night, if you are listening to this when this comes out on Wednesday October 19th, tomorrow night, Thursday October 20th, at 8:30pm Eastern Time, Citations Needed is going to hold a live Beg-athon, and by Beg-athon, we mean, a podcast fundraiser with amazing guests talking about pop culture.Adam: Yeah, we’re talking Star Trek, Nima’s going to talk wrestling.Nima: And we will also talk to each other during that.Adam: We will, but those are our two kinds of niche things that we love on our own, so we’re kind of doing a fun little thing for that. It’s going to be a fundraiser for the podcast as you mentioned, the first one we’ve ever had. So definitely check that out, tomorrow night, at...

02 Nov

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Citations Needed | November 2, 2022 | Transcript(Mark Lyons/Getty Images)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-169-how-the-right-ventriloquizing-the-working-man-to-push-pro-corporate-policy-and-gut-welfare[/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 please do consider, if you’re not already supporting the show, become a patron of Citations Needed through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. All your support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded. You won’t hear commercials or ads on Citations Needed, for now over five years we have not read a single line of ad copy, we are proud to say that we stay independent because of listeners like you.Adam: Yes, so if you can support us on Patreon where you can find over 120 patron-only News Briefs, little mini-episodes we do for our patrons, newsletters, show notes and other fun little goodies. Any support there is greatly appreciated, and as always, you can rate and subscribe to us on Apple...

05 Oct

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Citations Needed | October 5, 2022 | TranscriptThe Young Turks hosts (from left) John Iadarola, Cenk Uygur, and Ana Kasparian.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-young-turks-misleading-anti-bail-reform-demagoguery[/embed]Nima Shirazi: Hi, everyone. This is Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: And I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Before we get to this News Brief, we’re excited to announce that later this month, we’ll be hosting a Citations Needed Begathon, and by Begathon, we mean, a podcast fundraiser with amazing guests and fun prizes.Adam: We’ll be livestreaming two interviews on YouTube on Thursday, October 20, at 8:30pm Eastern Time. And here’s the deal. We want more Patreon supporters, we need more Patreon supporters. On each episode, we asked folks to sign up to support the show and a bunch of you do but also a whole lot of you don’t.Nima: Tens of thousands of you amazing people listen to Citations Needed each week or so. But a tiny fraction of listeners actually sign up to support the show.Adam: So we are reaching out and we are begging, as it were, at the beginning of our sixth season to ask you directly to support the show on...

28 Sep

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Citations Needed | September 28, 2022 | Transcript“Real world” exemplar Mike Rowe (right) chats with billionaire Charles Koch.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep168-how-faux-folksy-real-world-advice-is-employed-to-limit-political-possibility-and-punch-left[/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: Yes, and as always, you can rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and you can sign up for our Patreon which helps keep the show sustainable and keeps the episodes themselves always free.Nima: “Increasing Numbers of US Students Look for a ‘Real’ World,” read a 1965 headline from the magazine Moderator. “Academics: Get Real!,” the Harvard Business Review implored in 2009. “‘Defund the police’ runs into reality,” warned the Washington Post in 2021. “As Latin America Shifts Left, Leaders Face a Short Honeymoon,” declared the New York Times just this...

21 Sep

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Citations Needed | September 21, 2022 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-167-the-attractive-anti-politics-of-gerontocracy-discourse[/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 us 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: Yes, as always, you can sign up for our Patreon and get goodies there. You can get access to our newsletter, our show notes, and patron only News Briefs. We have about 120 or so there for you to listen to in the back catalog. If you could help us out there we would really really appreciate it. It helps keep the episodes themselves free and keeps the show sustainable.Nima: “Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old?,” inquires The New York Times. “Why Do Such Elderly People Run America?,” wonders The Atlantic magazine. “Gerontocracy Is Hurting Democracy,”...

14 Sep

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Citations Needed | September 14, 2022 | TranscriptEdward James Olmos as teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988).[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-166-the-convenient-conventional-wisdom-of-education-as-great-equalizer-appeals[/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: Welcome to season six of Citations Needed. Adam, we’ve been doing this since 2017. We are now back for our sixth season of Citations Needed. We cannot thank you all enough for listening to the show, for supporting the show. Of course, you can follow us on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, and if you have not already, please do consider supporting the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. We are 100 percent listener funded, we don’t run any commercials, we don’t have any corporate funding, we keep this completely independent and the way we do that is because of the support we get from listeners like you.Adam: Yeah, so if you listen and you like it, please consider subscribing to our Patreon. It really does help keep the show...