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Reporter’s summation of today’s episode from Frontline Africa news podcast: Five things you should take away from this episode. The number one thing is that this is now a four-front war. Iran from the east, Hezbollah from the north, the Houthis from Yemen in the south, the Iraqi militias hitting American targets across the Middle …
via James Hickman https://traffic.libsyn.com/sovman/riverside_emanuel__james___nov_05_2025_001_simon_blacks_studio.mp3 Imagine for a moment you own a small piece an old, well-established, family-owned business. Your long-lost ancestors started this company a few centuries ago, and subsequent generations built it into a global powerhouse— we’re talking $100 billion in annual revenue and hundreds of thousands of employees. Hundreds of years later, the …
Then came a jaw-dropper. Sanders was cornered by co-host Akaash Singh, who got him to admit that, YES, Democrats ARE a threat to Democracy. It happened when Schulz brought up how, over the past four election cycles, Democratic voters had little to no real say in who their nominee would be. He flat-out told Sanders …
Michelle Obama’s new podcast suffers dismal ratings ranking at number 34 in the Spotify podcast charts, just weeks after launch. Episodes on YouTube have received drastically low viewing numbers with one rapid receiving just over 60,000 views. pic.twitter.com/48xAW0Sexu — Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 9, 2025
by James Hickman https://traffic.libsyn.com/sovman/james__joe_full_podcast_episode__apr_3_2025.mp3 Governments love to tell you tariffs are about “protection”. But protection from what? More affordable goods? A higher quality of life? In today’s podcast, we dig into the many, many unforeseen consequences of the new tariff policies. For example: Examples from countries where I’ve lived which have heavy tariffs and import …
Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News host, has found a new lane for herself in podcasting and on YouTube. She built her career in the mainstream media, but she says she’s now in “a new ecosystem where the old rules don’t apply.” Watch her conversation with Lulu Garcia-Navarro on “The Interview.” 00:00 – Introduction 02:13 …
Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation in Diary of CEO podcast Diary of a CEO host Steven Bartlett is amplifying harmful health misinformation on his number-one ranked podcast, a BBC investigation has found. Recent claims from guests – including that cancer can be treated by following a keto diet, rather than proven treatments – were …
This blew up overnight 😳 To the questions re: prompting – how NotebookLM works is you feed it research docs which the agents discuss In this case, they got a one pager about them being AI – what I found amazing was how they processed and reacted to it pic.twitter.com/NeJ5si2PBA — Olivia Moore (@omooretweets) September …
Chris Moody and Jamie Weinstein, host and producer of the “Finding Matt Drudge” podcast, to discuss why media influencer Matt Drudge turned on Trump in 2020 after being a supporter in 2016, whether it was political or personal, and more.
A 35-year-old woman in New York will spend more than two decades behind bars for killing an NYPD officer while driving drunk without a license in a hit-and-run collision that occurred only a few hours after she had recorded a podcast in which she drank vodka and repeatedly disparaged police. Queens County Supreme Court Justice …
Tucker Carlson calls out Nikki Haley, Ben Shapiro, and every other person calling for war: “I’ve got 4 draft-age children. If you’re playing recklessly, fast and loose with their lives, then I have a right to despise you and I do.” Tucker Carlson calls out Nikki Haley, Ben Shapiro, and every other person calling for …
Conspiracies getting more and more mainstream… PBD is a hero, but worried for his safety with his outspokenness lately! And his recent attacks on the Clinton’s, the chef from Obama.. h/t Theocean12
by Chris Black Presidential candidate RFK Jr. had a fantastic 3-hour convo with Joe Rogan, who hosts the biggest podcast in history in terms of audience. I was quite impressed on how smart and composed this guy is for his age. The show is 3 hours long but it’s worth watching it in full. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DQfcTY4viyXsIXQ89NXvg?si=c24dba7df7864468 …