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EPISODE · Feb 7, 2025 · 1H 22M

Fork in the Road

from #rtbth · host Real Talk: Beyond the Headlines

No intro music!!2025 has launched into a frenzy, starting off with a terrorist attack on the first in New Orleans, a surprise (officially) lawsuit from Drake the rapper suing Universal Music Group (and by proxy his archnemesis Kendrick Lamar), and then accelerating into the never-before-seen territory of government by Elon Trump after the Trump inauguration.And then Herschel got a completely unhinged email entitled "Fork in the Road."While we don't want to sound hyperbolic, January 2025 felt like a major inflection point along the trajectory of our nation - and our nation's collective (in)sanity.We had to do an emergency podcast to talk it out.#rtbthShow Referenceshttps://www.xxlmag.com/drake-taunted-kendrick-lamar-not-like-us-grammy-sweep/https://www.complex.com/sports/a/backwoodsaltar/jason-whitlock-joy-taylor-lawsuit-peanut-butterhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/reagan-airport-flights-congress.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u04.9zJ0.BdzHzVcAOoh5&smid=url-sharehttps://www.citationneeded.news/issue-75/https://www.boston.com/community/readers-say/2025/01/27/earthquake-experiences/https://wapo.st/3Q1PWpJhttps://www.opm.gov/forkhttps://www.axios.com/2025/01/30/elon-musk-government-takeover-federal-workershttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/opinion/nvidia-deepseek-ai-valuation-ouroboros.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u04.uupn.M6scifxbV8ME&smid=url-sharehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-government.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE4.ClEt.Ci_S1nwmfdFB&smid=url-sharehttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/trump-musk-doge-engineers/681580/?gift=Jk8OVFznkwVV8TutfsyrUZqwHF_dzVVl3aXYVe9_DNY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharehttps://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5277029/trump-memo-halt-fundinghttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/rfk-jr-hearing-black-people-immune-systemshttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315708652-18/neurohype-scott-lilienfeld-elizabeth-aslinger-julia-marshall-sally-satelhttps://x.com/billmaher/status/1885543037557694765https://www.econtalk.org/what-modern-medicine-gets-wrong-with-marty-makary/https://www.science.org/content/article/mixed-reactions-greet-trump-s-pick-longtime-fda-critic-head-agencyhttps://stanfordreview.org/why-i-believe-dr-jay-bhattacharya-will-make-a-phenomenal-nih-director-a-students-perspective/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/opinion/alzheimers-fraud-cure.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE4.JQVA.Uj6f7k_kBpuc&smid=url-sharehttps://www.science.org/content/article/damning-fda-inspection-report-undermines-positive-trial-results-possible-alzheimer-shttps://wapo.st/4hoRaHyhttps://archive.is/4kIp5https://wapo.st/40GAhRqhttps://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/05/12/cnn-ted-turner-lisa-napolihttps://news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-benefits/musk-defends-500-million-twitter-severance-suit-win-on-appealhttps://newrepublic.com/post/185832/donald-trump-roasted-concepts-planhttps://www.axios.com/2024/07/31/trump-nabj-interview-black-jobs-rhetorichttps://www.persuasion.community/p/dei-must-changehttps://wapo.st/4jQSnJyhttps://youtu.be/AkmkMPIW0MM?si=gM1e5YEuA1ylRsvihttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/magazine/anna-lembke-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE4.ElCL.fsdM1n_mrrpl&smid=url-share

No intro music!!2025 has launched into a frenzy, starting off with a terrorist attack on the first in New Orleans, a surprise (officially) lawsuit from Drake the rapper suing Universal Music Group (and by proxy his archnemesis Kendrick Lamar), and then accelerating into the never-before-seen territory of government by Elon Trump after the Trump inauguration.And then Herschel got a completely unhinged email entitled "Fork in the Road."While we don't want to sound hyperbolic, January 2025 felt like a major inflection point along the trajectory of our nation - and our nation's collective (in)sanity.We had to do an emergency podcast to talk it out.#rtbthShow Referenceshttps://www.xxlmag.com/drake-taunted-kendrick-lamar-not-like-us-grammy-sweep/https://www.complex.com/sports/a/backwoodsaltar/jason-whitlock-joy-taylor-lawsuit-peanut-butterhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/reagan-airport-flights-congress.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u04.9zJ0.BdzHzVcAOoh5&smid=url-sharehttps://www.citationneeded.news/issue-75/https://www.boston.com/community/readers-say/2025/01/27/earthquake-experiences/https://wapo.st/3Q1PWpJhttps://www.opm.gov/forkhttps://www.axios.com/2025/01/30/elon-musk-government-takeover-federal-workershttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/opinion/nvidia-deepseek-ai-valuation-ouroboros.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u04.uupn.M6scifxbV8ME&smid=url-sharehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-government.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE4.ClEt.Ci_S1nwmfdFB&smid=url-sharehttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/trump-musk-doge-engineers/681580/?gift=Jk8OVFznkwVV8TutfsyrUZqwHF_dzVVl3aXYVe9_DNY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharehttps://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5277029/trump-memo-halt-fundinghttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/rfk-jr-hearing-black-people-immune-systemshttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315708652-18/neurohype-scott-lilienfeld-elizabeth-aslinger-julia-marshall-sally-satelhttps://x.com/billmaher/status/1885543037557694765https://www.econtalk.org/what-modern-medicine-gets-wrong-with-marty-makary/https://www.science.org/content/article/mixed-reactions-greet-trump-s-pick-longtime-fda-critic-head-agencyhttps://stanfordreview.org/why-i-believe-dr-jay-bhattacharya-will-make-a-phenomenal-nih-director-a-students-perspective/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/opinion/alzheimers-fraud-cure.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE4.JQVA.Uj6f7k_kBpuc&smid=url-sharehttps://www.science.org/content/article/damning-fda-inspection-report-undermines-positive-trial-results-possible-alzheimer-shttps://wapo.st/4hoRaHyhttps://archive.is/4kIp5https://wapo.st/40GAhRqhttps://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/05/12/cnn-ted-turner-lisa-napolihttps://news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-benefits/musk-defends-500-million-twitter-severance-suit-win-on-appealhttps://newrepublic.com/post/185832/donald-trump-roasted-concepts-planhttps://www.axios.com/2024/07/31/trump-nabj-interview-black-jobs-rhetorichttps://www.persuasion.community/p/dei-must-changehttps://wapo.st/4jQSnJyhttps://youtu.be/AkmkMPIW0MM?si=gM1e5YEuA1ylRsvihttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/magazine/anna-lembke-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE4.ElCL.fsdM1n_mrrpl&smid=url-share

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