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Elegant Ramblings
by Elegant Ramblings
A podcast where I read self-written essays on anything that interest me!
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Episode 32: Episode 32: Will Football ever slip?
You can check out our sponsor here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 USA Today - "The Taylor Swift effect? NFL says women make up almost half of audience" by Bryan West: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/02/05/taylor-swift-nfl-fans/78050737007/
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Episode 31: Episode 31: Distributive Justice - Two looks at who gets what
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Episode 30: Episode 30: Oscar Update
You can check out our sponsor here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 PBS - "The Oscars will move to YouTube in 2029, leaving longtime broadcasting home ABC" by Jake Coyle, AP: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/the-oscars-will-move-to-youtube-in-2029-leaving-longtime-broadcasting-home-abc Forbes - "Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘One Battle’ Projected To Lose $100 Million, Report Says" by Tim Lammers: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/10/15/leonardo-dicaprios-one-battle-projected-to-lose-100-million-report-says/ MSN / Variety - "Leonardo DiCaprio wonders if ‘people still have the appetite' for movie theaters: Will they become ‘like jazz bars?'" by Jack Dunn: https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/movies/leonardo-dicaprio-wonders-if-people-still-have-the-appetite-for-movie-theaters-will-they-become-like-jazz-bars/ar-AA1Tw2tn?ocid=BingNewsSerp Wikipedia - "Bird (1988 film" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_(1988_film) Variety - "Oscars Hit 19.7 Million Viewers, Up 1% From Last Year" by Selome Hailu: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/oscars-ratings-2025-viewers-1236326364/ USA Today - "Oscar ratings grew in 2024, here's how they've fared through the years" by James Powel: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/03/10/oscars-ratings-through-the-years/72921989007/ Wikipedia - "Super Bowl television ratings" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_television_ratings Deadline - "Movie Academy Unveils $500M Academy100 Fundraising Campaign Ahead Of 100th Oscars In 2028" by Patrick Hipes: https://deadline.com/2024/05/academy100-fundraising-campaign-oscars-1235911072/ The Hollywood Reporter - "2024 Oscars Boost Film Academy Bottom Line, But Museum Revenue Fell" by Alex Weprin: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/2024-oscars-revenue-rises-academy-museum-revenue-falls-2024-1236075562/ NBC 4 - "What is preferential ballot voting? Here's how a movie wins ‘Best Picture' Oscar" by Andrew V. Pestano: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/preferential-ballot-voting-movies-best-picture-oscars/3640385/ Liveaboutdotcom - "How Does a Film Qualify for the Best Picture Oscar?" by Christopher McKittrick: https://www.liveabout.com/qualifying-for-best-picture-oscar-4071766 Yahoo! - "Oscars to stream exclusively on YouTube starting in 2029" by Dominique Woods: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/oscars-stream-exclusively-youtube-starting-171856752.html Wikipedia - "One Batte After Another" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Battle_After_Another Variety - "‘One Battle After Another’ Projected to Lose $100 Million Theatrically as ‘Smashing Machine’ and Others Also Struggle Due to Oversized Budgets" by Brent Lang & Rebecca Rubin: https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/one-battle-after-another-lose-100-million-dollars-theaters-1236552914/ Wikipedia - "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springsteen:_Deliver_Me_from_Nowhere
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Episode 29: Episode 29: Who will own the movies?
You can check out our sponsor here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Reuters - "Hollywood-hungry Gulf states bankroll Paramount's Warner Bros bid" by Federico Maccioni and Rachna Uppal: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/hollywood-hungry-gulf-states-bankroll-paramounts-warner-bros-bid-2025-12-09/ Wikipedia - "List of Warner Bros. films (2020–2029)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Warner_Bros._films_(2020%E2%80%932029) Wikipedia - "Major Film Studios": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_film_studios Wikipedia - "Warner Bros. Discovery": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Discovery Wikipedia - "Warner Bros. Pictures": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Pictures Wikipedia - "HBO Max": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO_Max Wikipedia - "List of streaming media services": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_streaming_media_services Deadline - "Warner Bros First Studio This Year To Cross $4 Billion At Global Box Office" by Anthony D'Alessandro: https://deadline.com/2025/09/warner-bros-box-office-2025-1236557609/ The Hollywood Reporter - "Warner Bros. Discovery Adds 5.3 Million Streaming Subs as Losses Narrow, Studios Slow on Tough Box Office" by Alex Weprin, Etan Vlessing: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-discovery-q1-2025-earnings-streaming-growth-1236210369/ CNN - "Netflix announces deal to buy Warner Bros. and HBO" by Brian Stelter: https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/media/netflix-deal-warner-bros Forbes (as hosted on MSN) - "Larry Ellison—losing $31 billion—stumbles to No. 3 richest as Oracle shares plummet" by Ty Roush, Forbes Staff: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/larry-ellison-losing-31-billion-stumbles-to-no-3-richest-as-oracle-shares-plummet/ar-AA1Sa32g?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=693b92d070f34c929918eb96ab878dda&ei=32 The Wrap (as hosted on MSN) - "Netflix-WBD merger faces antitrust class action on behalf of HBO Max subscribers: 'Presumptively anticompetitive'" by JD Knapp: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/netflix-wbd-merger-faces-antitrust-class-action-on-behalf-of-hbo-max-subscribers-presumptively-anticompetitive/ar-AA1S5PQM?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=693aca7f0924410888d0c43473f42f67&ei=32 SuperHeroHype (as hosted on MSN) - "Netflix details WB changes, DC movies will have shorter theatrical windows eventually" by Evolve Editors: https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/netflix-details-wb-changes-dc-movies-will-have-shorter-theatrical-windows-eventually/ar-AA1RNbi1 The Wrap (as hosted on MSN) - "Bob Iger warns Netflix purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery gives streamer 'pricing leverage'" by Lucas Manfredi: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/bob-iger-warns-netflix-purchase-of-warner-bros-discovery-gives-streamer-pricing-leverage/ar-AA1SaEp3?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=693b226c9f2b4ae3bb41a181ce6a2c00&ei=15 Forbes - "How Disney Dominated The Global Theme Park Industry in 2023" by Suzanne Rowan Kelleher: https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2024/08/16/how-disney-dominated-the-theme-park-industry-in-2023/ The Big Picture Podcast - "The Truth About Netflix Buying Warner Bros." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CINMbYD22T0 Yahoo!Finance - "Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD)" https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WBD/ Episodic Medium - "Week-to-Week: Sinners' Box Office vs. the Asterisk People" by Myles McNutt and Kristen Warner: https://episodicmedium.substack.com/p/week-to-week-sinners-box-office-vs The Streamable - "How many subscribers do top streamers have?" by David Satin: https://thestreamable.com/subscriber-total-every-streaming-service#live-tv-streamers CNN - "Netflix has a big unanswered question. That may kill its Warner Bros. deal" by David Goldman: https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/06/media/netflix-warner-bros-antitrust Variety - "Why Does David Ellison Want Paramount to Swallow Warner Bros. Discovery Whole? To Beat Rival Suitors to the Punch" by Todd Spangler: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-acquisition-consolidation-analysis-1236515947/ Fortune - "Netflix’s $5.8 billion breakup fee for Warner among largest ever" by Elizabeth Fournier and Bloomberg: https://fortune.com/2025/12/06/netflix-5-8-billion-breakup-fee-warner-bros-among-largest-ever/ CNBC - "David Ellison’s hunt for WBD made David Zaslav richer — and it may not be over" by Alex Sherman: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/paramount-david-ellison-wbd-bidding-war-hostile-bid.html?msockid=1546b612e67260fe1049a266e7e261f9 Two Reel Cinema Club - "New York Times Top 100 Films at the Popcorn Counter: Two Reel Cinema Club Ep 174": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyfeZRl3aFI
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Episode 28: Episode 28: How much is a metal band's catalog worth?
Check out our sponsor here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 The Hollywood Reporter - "Slipknot Sells Stake in Catalog To HarbourView (Exclusive)" by Ethan Millman: https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/slipknot-sells-stake-in-catalog-to-harbourview-exclusive/ar-AA1QFM7X?ocid=BingNewsSerp Kworb.net - Slipknot: https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/05fG473iIaoy82BF1aGhL8_songs.html Billboard Pro - "Slipknot Explores Sale of Band’s Music Assets in Nine-Figure Deal With HarbourView" by Ed Christman: https://www.billboard.com/pro/slipknot-selling-royalties-harbourview-deal/ iHeart Radio - "Slipknot Has Sold A Majority Stake Of The Band's Catalogue" by iHeartRadio: https://www.iheartradio.ca/en/music-news/slipknot-has-sold-a-majority-stake-of-the-bands-catalogue.html Music Business Worldwide - "Abba Voyage generated $113m in 2024 as demand for virtual concert series stayed strong in third year" by Daniel Tencer: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/abba-voyage-generated-113m-in-2024-as-demand-for-virtual-concert-series-stayed-strong-in-third-year/ PC Gamer - "Travis Scott's Fortnite show reportedly earned him $20 million" by Andy Chalk: https://www.pcgamer.com/travis-scotts-fortnite-show-reportedly-earned-him-dollar20-million/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/julietremaine/2025/08/28/at-halloween-horror-nights-universal-orlando-breaks-its-own-records/
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Episode 27: Episode 27: Movies are getting worse - why?
You can check out our sponsor here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Associated Press - "Streaming is overtaking theaters for movie watchers, an AP-NORC poll finds" by Lindsey Bahr and Amelia Thomson-Devaux: https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/streaming-is-overtaking-theaters-for-movie-watchers-an-ap-norc-poll-finds/ar-AA1NhswA?ocid=BingNewsSerp Science Direct - "Unravelling the complexity of the Video Game Industry: An integrative framework and future research directions" by Edward Goh, Omar Al-Tobbaa, and Zaheer Khan: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772503023000609 Progressive Policy Institute - "PPI’s Trade Fact of the Week: The price of a 40-inch TV set has fallen by 99% in 25 years" by Ed Gresser: https://www.progressivepolicy.org/ppis-trade-fact-of-the-week-the-price-of-a-40-inch-tv-set-has-fallen-by-99-in-25-years/ Netflix - "What We Watched the First Half of 2025": https://about.netflix.com/en/news/what-we-watched-the-first-half-of-2025 Museum of Arts and Design - "VHS" by Jake Yuzna, Matthew Desiderio and Rebecca Cleman: https://madmuseum.org/series/vhs Ask Earache - "Music videos made in the 90's were damn expensive " by Digby: https://askearache.blogspot.com/2010/07/music-videos-made-in-90s-were-damn.html Cord Cutters News - "DVD & Blu-ray Sales Plummet Over 93% Since 2005 Peak, Dipping Below $1 Billion in 2024" by Luke Bouma: https://cordcuttersnews.com/dvd-blu-ray-sales-plummet-over-93-since-2005-peak-dipping-below-1-billion-in-2024/ Matt Damon on Hot Ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF6K2IxC9O8 Wikipedia "Donnie Darko": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko Top 100 List (Unranked) 100 500 Days of Summer 99 A Beautiful Mind 98 Avatar 97 Babylon 96 Be Kind Rewind 95 Beerfest 94 Best in Show 93 Black Dynamite 92 Black Swan 91 Blindspotting 90 Blue Ruin 89 Borat 88 Brick 87 Cabin in the Woods 86 Chicago 85 Children of Men 84 City of God 83 Crash 82 Dark Waters 81 Death of Stalin 80 Edge of Tomorrow 79 Encanto 78 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room 77 Finding Nemo 76 Gone Girl 75 Hacksaw Ridge 74 Hereditary 73 Hostiles 72 House of Sand and Fog 71 House of the Devil 70 Inside Out 69 Intacto 68 Intolerable Cruelty 67 Iron Man 66 Isle of Dogs 65 Jarhead 64 Judorowsky's Dune 63 Kid Detective 62 Kill Bill Vol.1 61 Lady Bird 60 Lego Batman 59 Locke 58 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 57 Narc 56 Nightcrawler 55 Malena 54 Master and Commander 53 Mean Girls 52 Moulin Rouge! 51 Mother! 50 Mulholland Drive 49 Mystic River 48 Old School 47 Prisoners 46 Red Rocket 45 Rent 44 Shrek 43 Sicko 42 Silver Linings Playbook 41 Sing 40 Snatch 39 Snow Piercer 38 Star Trek 37 Superbad 36 The Artist 35 The Babadook 34 The Dark Knight 33 The Expendables 32 The Fighter 31 The Fog of War 30 The Hangover 29 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 28 The Passion of the Christ 27 The Room 26 The Square 25 The Strangers 24 The Substance 23 The Witch 22 There Will be Blood 21 This is the End 20 Top Gun Maverick 19 Traffic 18 Triplets of Bellville 17 V/H/S 16 Walk Hard 15 West Side Story 14 Wet Hot American Summer 13 Who Killed the Electric Car? 12 Wind River 11 Zero Dark Thirty Top 10 (Ranked): 10 The Incredibles 9 Inception 8 Eigth Grade 7 Michael Clayton 6 Gladiator 5 Sexy Beast 4 Manchester by the Sea 3 Parasite 2 The Social Network 1 No Country for Old Men HMs Chef King's Speech When the Levee Breaks Downloaded Dig! The Night Before District 9 Pain and Glory The Town Baby Driver
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Episode 26: Episode 26: NYT 100 Best Films since 2000: The Good, The Bad, and The Bridesmaids
You can check out our sponsor here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1lqhqqo/the_nytimes_readers_100_top_movies_of_the_21st/
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Episode 25: Episode 25: What's Wrong with Abundance?
You can check out our sponsor here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Religion & Liberty Online - "The Curious Task of ‘Abundance'" by Anne Bradley: https://rlo.acton.org/archives/127068-the-curious-task-of-abundance.html EPA - "Fast Facts on Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions": https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-greenhouse-gas-emissions Motley Fool - "Which States Produce the Most Renewable Energy?" by Lyle Daly: https://www.fool.com/research/renewable-energy-by-state/?msockid=1546b612e67260fe1049a266e7e261f9
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Episode 24: Episode 24: Star Wars: A New Trilogy?
Check out our sponsor, Another Book Review: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Star Wars Race Name Generator: https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/star-wars.php Star Wars Planet Name Generator: https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/sw-planet-names.php
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Episode 23: Episode 23: AmeriCorps
You can check out our sponsor here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Associated Press - "AmeriCorps cuts prompt two dozen states to sue Trump administration" by Hannah Fingerhut: https://apnews.com/article/americorps-lawsuit-trump-doge-efd7e461acc932beaa56c3e2c4fd927d Associated Press - "Most of AmeriCorps staff members have been placed on leave after DOGE cuts" by Hannah Fingerhut and Tran Nguyen: https://apnews.com/article/trump-doge-americorps-cuts-volunteers-service-9b9c0e0cfb82ba6513478a35d3889b43 GAO - "MILITARY RECRUITING: Actions Needed to Address Digital Marketing Challenges: https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-25-106719/index.html Yahoo! - "Young Adults Are Reviving Small Towns—and They’re Moving at the Highest Rate in a Decade" by Snejana Farberov: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/young-adults-reviving-small-towns-094500016.html NPR - "100 days of DOGE: What Elon Musk has achieved and what comes next" by Bobby Allyn and Lauren Frayer: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/27/nx-s1-5372830/100-days-of-doge-what-elon-musk-has-achieved-and-what-comes-next USA Today - "Is Elon Musk quitting DOGE? What he said after disastrous Tesla earnings call" by Jordan Green: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/04/23/is-elon-musk-quitting-doge-what-he-said-after-bad-tesla-earnings-call/83228653007/ CNN - "‘Just never been anything like DOGE’: Inside Elon Musk’s turbulent takeover of government in Trump’s first 100 days" by Jeremy Herb, Eric Bradner and Tami Luhby: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/26/politics/elon-musk-hostile-takeover-government-trump-100-days/index.html The Hill - "What happens to DOGE once Elon Musk leaves?" by Julia Shapero: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5266007-what-happens-to-doge-once-elon-musk-leaves/
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Episode 22: Episode 22: Is a Value-Added Tax inevitable?
Check out our sponsor here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Congressional Research Service - "Value-Added Tax (VAT) as a Revenue Option: A Primer" by James M. Bickley: https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R41708.pdf McKinsey & Company - "We need to talk . . . about gen AI" by Gerard Richter, Marie El Hoyek, and Valerio Dilda: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights/operations-blog/we-need-to-talk-about-gen-ai CNBC - "How much would a wealth tax really raise? Dueling economists reflect new split in Democratic Party" by Robert Frank: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/10/dueling-economists-debate-how-much-a-wealth-tax-would-raise.html?msockid=1546b612e67260fe1049a266e7e261f9 Axios - "Why Trump is taking aim at Europe's sales tax" by Felix Salmon: https://www.axios.com/2025/03/31/europe-trump-tariffs-sales-tax AP - "US economic growth to slow in the next 30 years, fueled by debt and declining birth rates, CBO says" by Fatima Hussein and Josh Boak: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-economic-growth-to-slow-in-the-next-30-years-fueled-by-debt-and-declining-birth-rates-cbo-says/ar-AA1BN6Pf?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=5180883af1c84a8c833f4f6dbea6c47b&ei=23 The Hill - "5 reasons why a wealth tax is bad policy" by Richard J. Shinder: https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4782461-wealth-tax-supreme-court-decision/ Tax Policy Center - "Taxing Wealth in the United States: Issues and Challenges" by Janet Holtzlatt and Gabriella Garriga: https://taxpolicycenter.org/research-reports/taxing-wealth-united-states-issues-and-challenges Tax Foundation - "From the Tax Foundation Archives: The Pros and Cons of a Value Added Tax (VAT)" by Scott Hodge: https://taxfoundation.org/blog/pros-cons-value-added-tax-vat/ Business Insider - "What productivity boom? AI will provide just a 1% GDP boost over the next decade, MIT economist says" by Filip De Mott: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-artificial-intelligence-productivity-economy-gdp-growth-impact-daron-acemoglu-2024-5 Bloomberg Tax - "The United States Needs a Value-Added Tax" by Alan Viard: https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/the-united-states-needs-a-value-added-tax World Resources Institute - "US Clean Power Development Sees Record Progress, As Well As Stronger Headwinds" by Lori Bird, Andrew Light and Ian Goldsmith: https://www.wri.org/insights/clean-energy-progress-united-states Avalara - "‘It’s inevitable,’ experts say: U.S. states will eventually adopt European-style sales tax compliance requirements" by Bryan Corliss: https://www.avalara.com/blog/en/north-america/2022/05/its-inevitable-experts-say-us-states-will-eventually-adopt-european-style-sales-tax-compliance-requirements.html Scientific America - "The AI Boom Could Use a Shocking Amount of Electricity" by Lauren Leffer: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ai-boom-could-use-a-shocking-amount-of-electricity/ CNBC - "The probability of a recession is approaching 50%, Deutsche markets survey finds" by Jeff Cox: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/24/the-probability-of-a-recession-is-approaching-50percent-deutsche-markets-survey-finds.html?msockid=1546b612e67260fe1049a266e7e261f9 McKinsey Global Institute - "Rekindling US productivity for a new era" by Charles Atkins, Olivia White, Asutosh Padhi, Kweilin Ellingrud, Anu Madgavkar, and Michael Neary: https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/rekindling-us-productivity-for-a-new-era Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - "What Lessons Can Be Drawn from Japan’s High Debt-to-GDP Ratio?" by YiLi Chien and Ashley H. Stewart: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2023/nov/what-lessons-drawn-japans-high-debt-gdp-ratio Peter G Petersen Foundation - "National Debt on Track to Reach Record High in Just Four Years": https://www.pgpf.org/article/national-debt-on-track-to-reach-record-high-in-just-four-years/ Penn Wharton - "When Does Federal Debt Reach Unsustainable Levels?" by Jagadeesh Gokhale and Kent Smetters: https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2023/10/6/when-does-federal-debt-reach-unsustainable-levels
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Episode 21: Episode 21: Overrated, Underrated, and Rated Movies of the Last 25 Years
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Episode 20: Episode 20: Oscars, Oscars Oscars!
Check out our sponsor here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Freddie DeBoer-"I Would Like to Gently Suggest that Perhaps Everything Everywhere All at Once is Just a Touch Overrated": https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/i-would-like-to-gently-suggest-that
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Episode 19: Episode 19: The Past, Present, and Future of Electric Vehicles
Check out our sponsor at: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1 IEA.Gov - "Share of SUVs in total car sales in key markets, 2010-2019": https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/share-of-suvs-in-total-car-sales-in-key-markets-2010-2019 Ford - "Ford Broadens Electrification Strategy to Reach More Customers, Improve Profitability, Continue to Reduce CO2": https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2024/08/21/ford-broadens-electrification-strategy-to-reach-more-customers--.html Ars Technica - "Chinese EV makers won’t get subsidies from Mexico after US pressure" by Jonathan M. Gitlin: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/chinese-ev-makers-wont-get-subsidies-from-mexico-after-us-pressure/ McKinsey & Company - "Paying up for autonomous driving" https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/sustainable-inclusive-growth/charts/paying-up-for-autonomous-driving The Verge - "Crash of the Titan: a short history of Apple’s doomed car project" by Wes Davis: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/3/24085995/apple-car-project-titan-timeline-driverless-ev-doomed DW.com - Apple pulls the plug on its self-driving e-car project by Dirk Kaufmann: https://www.dw.com/en/apple-pulls-the-plug-on-its-self-driving-e-car-project/a-68421710#:~:text=Project%20Titan%20cost%20Apple%20over,including%20in%20the%20car%20sector.
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Episode 18: Episode 18: Looking forward to 2025
Follow our sponsor at: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Time Magazine - "The 39 Most Anticipated Books of 2025" by Shannon Carlin: https://time.com/7202423/most-anticipated-books-2025/ Today - "50 books we can't wait to read in 2025" by Lupita Aquino, Arianna Davis, Bryanna Cappadona, Georgina DiNardo, Anna Kaplan, Maddie Ellis, Kelly Vaughan, Elena Nicolaou and Ayanna Miller: https://www.today.com/popculture/books/best-new-books-2025-rcna184522 Patrick Ryan Website: https://patrickryanbooks.com/books/buckeye/ Goodreads - "Three Days in June": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213243949-three-days-in-june?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=YbU3RWncIh&rank=4
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Episode 17: Episode 17: A Premature Autopsy of the 2024 presidential election
Please check out our sponsor at: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 NBC - "Exit Polls" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls Texas Tribune "Trump’s near sweep of Texas border counties shows a shift to the right for Latino voters" by Jasper Scherer, Zach Despart and Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune, and Perla Trevizo and Dan Keemahill, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica - https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/06/donald-trump-near-sweep-texas-border-counties/ NPR - "They split the ticket. Meet the abortion rights voters who also went for Trump" by Sarah Varney - https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/11/08/nx-s1-5184539/trump-election-abortion-votes-harris CBS - "National Exit Poll for Presidential Results (2020)" - https://www.cbsnews.com/elections/2020/united-states/president/exit-poll/ Pew Research - "Newspapers Fact Sheet" - https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/newspapers/ Silver Bulletin - "Kamala Harris was a replacement-level candidate" by Nate Silver - https://www.natesilver.net/p/kamala-harris-was-a-replacement-level Reuters - "Kamala Harris stood up to big banks, with mixed results for consumers in crisis" by Sharon Bernstein - https://www.reuters.com/article/world/kamala-harris-stood-up-to-big-banks-with-mixed-results-for-consumers-in-crisis-idUSKCN1SF0Z4/ PolitiFact - "Kamala Harris Says She ‘Took On The Big Banks’ As California Atty. General. Did She Go Far Enough?" by Chris Nichols - https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/25/kamala-harris-says-she-took-big-banks-california-a/ Roper Center - "How Groups Voted in 2020" - https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2020 Forbes - "Trump Vs. Harris Fundraising: Harris Outraises Trump By Nearly 5-to-1 Among Last Minute Big Donors" by Alison Durkee - https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/11/04/trump-vs-harris-fundraising-race-harris-outraised-trump-3-to-1-with-last-pre-election-report/ Forbes - "Real Estate Experts Cite Pros And Cons Of $25,000 Harris First Time Homebuyer Plan" by Jamie Gold - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiegold/2024/08/26/experts-cite-pros-and-cons-of-25000-harris-first-time-homebuyer-plan/ HeathStory - "2024 Harris 'White Dudes for Harris' Ad" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rekHu6eV_PA The Lincoln Project - "Doc Rivers Tells It Like It Is" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKUa32LNNBA The Cut - "What to Know About Kamala Harris’s Policy Proposals" by By Andrea González-Ramírez - https://www.thecut.com/article/what-are-kamala-harris-policies.html USA Today - "How Clinton lost 'blue wall' states of Mich., Pa., Wis." by Craig Gilbert, Todd Spangler and Bill Laitner Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Detroit Free Press - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/11/09/how-clinton-lost-blue-wall-states-mich-pa-wis/93577628/ CNN - "7 charts and maps show where Harris underperformed and lost the election" by Amy O’Kruk, Renée Rigdon and Zachary B. Wolf, CNN - https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/politics/election-voters-harris-what-matters-dg/index.html Vox - "One striking pattern hidden in the election results" by Andrew Prokop - https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/383197/kamala-harris-results-underperformed-democratic-senate-candidates LA Times - "Young men swung to the right for Trump after a campaign dominated by masculine appeals" by Matt Brown - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/young-men-swung-to-the-right-for-trump-after-a-campaign-dominated-by-masculine-appeals/ar-AA1v2TXS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=fd22f7915eac4639957cbbaf0e3ba5cd&ei=11 CBS News - "How Trump won the 2024 election — CBS News exit poll results" by Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, Eran Ben-Porath - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/exit-polls-2024-presidential-election/ PBS - "Making The Case For Trump’s Tariffs | Amanpour and Company" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiMh1Hdb9RA TED Talk - "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E Biennial Post-Election Analysis with Bill Galston and Bill Kristol, joined by Ross Douthat by the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md7NXqpta7o
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Episode 16: Episode 16: What About Bob?
Check out our sponsor, Another Book Review: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 BBC "Bob Dylan Sells Rights to all his songs to Universal Music Group" https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55213529 The Hustle "The economics of Broadway shows" by Mark Dent - https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-broadway-shows Billboard "Top 10 Highest-Grossing Rock Tours of 2023" by Eric Frankenberg - https://www.billboard.com/lists/top-rock-tours-2023-list/phish/ ComingSoon.net "Bob Dylan Net Worth 2024: How Much Money Does He Make?" by Vritti Johar - https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bob-dylan-net-worth-2024-023444353.html Variety "Bob Dylan Sells Recorded-Music Catalog to Sony Music" by Jem Aswad - https://variety.com/2022/music/news/bob-dylan-sells-recorded-music-catalog-to-sony-music-1235161614/ Variety "AM and FM Radio Do Not Pay Royalties to Artists — That’s Un-American: Guest Post by Senators Alex Padilla and Marsha Blackburn" by Variety Staff - https://variety.com/2023/music/opinion/radio-royalties-un-american-senators-alex-padilla-marsha-blackburn-1235650283/ Bob Dylan - Spotify Top Songs https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/74ASZWbe4lXaubB36ztrGX_songs.html Ditto "What Are Mechanical Royalties? Explained for Musicians" https://dittomusic.com/en/blog/what-are-mechanical-royalties-explained-for-musicians/#:~:text=Music%20copyrights%20are%20split%20into%20two%20parts.%20One,are%20paid%20in%20relation%20to%20a%20song%E2%80%99s%20composition. Grammys "The Expanding Universe of Music Sync: How It Works, Understanding The Opportunities" by Bill Kopp - https://www.grammy.com/news/music-sync-explainer-how-it-works-opportunities-getting-paid-future-of-sync The Economics of Everyday Things: Episode 3 - My Sharona - https://freakonomics.com/podcast/my-sharona/ Billboard "Music Synch Revenue Is Growing Faster Than Ever" by Glenn Peoples - https://www.billboard.com/pro/music-synch-revenue-tv-film-growing/ BBC "Gig ticket prices have doubled since 1990s" by James Graham - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-42982769 Vox "The real reason it costs so much to go to a concert" by Whizy Kim - https://www.vox.com/money/24159044/concert-tickets-ticketmaster-scalpers-expensive
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Episode 15: Episode 15: UBI - Dream or Nightmare?
Please check out our sponsor here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Vox - "Everywhere UBI has been tried, in one map" by Sigal Samuel: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/19/21112570/universal-basic-income-ubi-map Evonomics - "Capitalism’s Core Problem: The Case for Universal Property" by Peter Barnes: https://evonomics.com/a-new-capitalism-the-case-for-universal-property/#:~:text=Universal%20property%2C%20as%20I%20use,yet%2Dto%2Dbe%20born. TaxFoundation.org - "Does Andrew Yang’s “Freedom Dividend” Proposal Add Up?" by Kyle Pomerleau: https://taxfoundation.org/blog/andrew-yang-value-added-tax-universal-basic-income/ FactCheck.org - "How Much Will the ‘Green New Deal’ Cost?" by Jessica McDonald: https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/how-much-will-the-green-new-deal-cost/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7bW47eHjiAMV6axaBR3w3SBeEAAYASAAEgK7LPD_BwE Forbes - "The Surprising Cost Of Biden’s Free College Tuition Plan" by Rob Berger: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertberger/2020/09/04/the-surprising-cost-of-bidens-free-college-tuition-plan/ US Department of Education - "First-Generation Students - College Access, Persistence, and Postbachelor's Outcomes" by Emily Forrest Cataldi, Christopher T: Bennett, & Xianglei Chen: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/2018421.pdf MSBNC - "What billionaires and business titans say about cash handouts in 2017 (Hint: lots!)" by Catherine Clifford: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/27/what-billionaires-say-about-universal-basic-income-in-2017.html#:~:text=The%20idea%20of%20universal%20basic%20income,%20or?msockid=1546b612e67260fe1049a266e7e261f9 Magenta Health Japan - "Robots & their Contribution to Aged Care": https://magentahealthjapan.com/robots-their-contribution-to-aged-care/#:~:text=The%20government%20is%20funding%20development%20of%20these%20robots,to%20over%205%2C000%20facilities%20all%20over%20the%20country Nexford University - "How Will Artificial Intelligence Affect Jobs 2024-2030" by Mark Talmage-Rostron: https://www.nexford.edu/insights/how-will-ai-affect-jobs University of New Hampshire - "More U.S. Women of Childbearing Age, but Fewer Have Given Birth" by Kennth Johnson: https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/more-us-women-childbearing-age-fewer-have-given-birth#:~:text=There%20were%204.7%20million%20more%20women%20aged
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Episode 14: Episode 14: Election 2024 - This time it's Global
Please check out our sponsor at: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Project 2025 Explained: Democrats Assail Controversial Right-Wing Policy Map For Trump At DNC https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/08/19/project-2025-explained-democrats-assail-controversial-right-wing-policy-map-for-trump-at-dnc/ What could Project 2025 mean for the rest of the world? https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/7/10/what-does-project-2025-mean-for-the-world Trump’s Foreign-Policy Influencers https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/08/26/trump-foreign-policy-influencers-us-election-china-trade-nato-ukraine/ Trump could — and wants to — shake up U.S. foreign policy even more in a second term https://www.npr.org/2024/06/11/nx-s1-4996441/trump-foreign-policy-israel-europe-nato-ukraine-russia-china-trade Imagining Trump 2.0: Six scary policy scenarios for a second term https://ecfr.eu/publication/imagining-trump-2-0-six-scary-policy-scenarios-for-a-second-term/ National Health Expenditure Projections 2023-2032 https://www.cms.gov/files/document/nhe-projections-forecast-summary.pdf Harris stands by Israel's right to defend itself while saying Gaza situation is 'heartbreaking' https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/harris-stands-israels-right-defend-saying-gaza-situation-heartbreaking-rcna167893 What a Kamala Harris foreign policy could look like https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/21/kamala-harris-foreign-policy-00170143 Will a Kamala Harris Administration Continue Biden’s Greater Clarity on Taiwan? https://thediplomat.com/2024/08/will-a-kamala-harris-administration-continue-bidens-greater-clarity-on-taiwan/ A graphical look at scenarios for the US defense budget through 2027 https://www.defensenews.com/outlook/2022/12/05/a-graphical-look-at-scenarios-for-the-us-defense-budget-through-2027/ Would a Trump presidency change China's calculations on Taiwan? https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/U.S.-elections-2024/Would-a-Trump-presidency-change-China-s-calculations-on-Taiwan Why Ukraine’s generals may have rolled the dice on an incursion into Russia https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/08/europe/ukraine-russia-incursion-analysis-intl-cmd/index.html Views of Ukraine and U.S. involvement with the Russia-Ukraine war https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/05/08/views-of-ukraine-and-u-s-involvement-with-the-russia-ukraine-war/ Taiwan Announced a Record Defense Budget: But Is It Enough to Deter China? https://www.cfr.org/blog/taiwan-announced-record-defense-budget-it-enough-deter-china There is 'no situation' where Taiwan can defend itself against China the way Ukraine has fought against Russia, says APAC security expert https://www.businessinsider.com/taiwan-cant-defend-against-china-without-direct-american-help-2023-4#:~:text=Taiwan%20can%27t%20fight%20off%20China%20alone%2C%20even%20if,US%20can%20arrive%2C%20she%20told%20The%20Washington%20Post The U.S. could slash climate pollution, but it might not be enough, a new report says https://www.npr.org/2023/07/20/1189060785/u-s-could-cut-climate-pollution-but-it-is-still-short-of-paris-agreement-pledge Harris has yet to outline her plan for climate change. Here's what the Democratic Party platform says https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democratic-party-platform-climate-environment/ Why Is Taiwan Important to the United States? https://www.cfr.org/blog/why-taiwan-important-united-states Taiwan under pressure to bolster its defense as Trump-Harris presidential race stokes policy concerns https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/05/taiwan-under-pressure-to-bolster-defense-amid-trump-harris-election-race.html
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Episode 13: Episode 13: 9/11, The War on Terror, and the Future of Conflict
Pew Research - The Enduring Legacy of 9/11 https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/09/02/two-decades-later-the-enduring-legacy-of-9-11/ ABC News - "9/11 Families, Except One, Receive Over $7 Billion" by ABC News: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/september-11-victims-family-seeks-justice/story?id=14364251 The Onion 20 Years Later - "The Onion's 9/11 issue, 20 years later" by James Dasilva: https://onion20.substack.com/p/the-onions-911-issue-20-years-later Archive.org - Metro Boston - September 11th, 2011 issue: https://archive.org/details/metro-boston-2011-09-09/page/n9/mode/2up CNN - "Clinton 'full of regret' bin Laden got away": https://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/03/clinton.bin.laden/index.html CNN - "War game suggests Chinese invasion of Taiwan would fail at a huge cost to US, Chinese and Taiwanese militaries" by Brad Lendon and Oren Liebermann: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/politics/taiwan-invasion-war-game-intl-hnk-ml/index.html The Atlantic - "Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War" by Jon Mearsheimer: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/foreign/mearsh.htm The Week - "Are We Close to World War 3?": https://theweek.com/92967/are-we-heading-towards-world-war-3 Small Wars Journal - "Manpower and Counterinsurgency" by Shawn Robert Woodford: https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/manpower-and-counterinsurgency
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Episode 12: Episode 12: How to Save the Movies
Check out our sponsor, Another Book Review, here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Big Pitcure Podcast - "Hollywood Is Broken. Let’s Start a Movie Studio": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hollywood-is-broken-lets-start-a-movie-studio/id1439252196?i=1000657781618 Lynda Obst on Pre-Awareness and Sequelitis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7wv7sKD7NU CNBC - "The Death of the DVD: Why sales dropped more than 86% in 13 years": https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/08/the-death-of-the-dvd-why-sales-dropped-more-than-86percent-in-13-years.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD Forbes - "Yes, A Digital-Only Gaming Future Is Coming, And We Can’t Stop It": https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitchwallace/2023/10/13/yes-a-digital-only-gaming-future-is-coming-and-we-cant-stop-it/ Cord Cutters News - "Target Will Stop Selling Most DVDs Joining Best Buy Plans to Walk Away From DVD & Blu-rays": https://cordcuttersnews.com/target-will-stop-selling-most-dvds-joining-best-buy-plans-to-walk-away-from-dvd-blu-rays/#:~:text=In%20October%2C%20Best%20Buy%20confirmed%20that%20it%20would,DVDs%20except%20for%20the%20most%20recent%20new%20DVDs Box Office Mojo - "Domestic Box Office by Year" https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/
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Episode 11: Episode 11: Trapped Inside the Walled Garden
Please visit our sponsor at: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 HBS: With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees by Jay Fitzgerald - https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/with-subscription-fatigue-setting-in-companies-need-to-think-hard-about-fees Forbes: Why The Future Of Media Is Subscription-Based by Falon Fatemi - https://www.forbes.com/sites/falonfatemi/2023/12/13/why-the-future-of-media-is-subscription-based/ Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification (21 Jan 2023) by Cory Doctorow - https://craphound.com/news/2023/02/20/tiktoks-enshittification/ Mother Jones: Why Reddit Is Destined to Turn to Crap by Ali Breland - https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/reddit-blackout/ Quartz: Hulu and Disney+ are losing subscribers as the streaming industry struggles to turn a profit by Bruce Gil - https://qz.com/streaming-services-antenna-state-subscriptions-report-1851291285 Motley Fool: State of Streaming 2024: Streaming Services and Consumer Sentiment by Jack Coporal - https://www.fool.com/research/state-of-streaming/ Fresh Air: How streaming, mergers and other major changes are upending Hollywood - Interview by Tonya Mosley: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/25/1246886718/how-streaming-mergers-and-other-major-changes-are-upending-hollywood The Wrap: Your Unfair Cable Bill: Most Expensive Channels Aren’t the Most Watched by LA Ross and Tony Maglio - https://www.thewrap.com/cable-network-carriage-fees/ The Current: What the Tech are Walled Gardens? by Chris Brooklier - https://www.thecurrent.com/what-the-tech-walled-gardens Wake Forest Law Review: Will the DOJ Lower the Walls of Apple’s Walled Garden? by Maeve Hickey - https://www.wakeforestlawreview.com/2024/04/will-the-doj-lower-the-walls-of-apples-walled-garden/ The Atlantic: Streaming has Reached its Sad, Predictable Fate by By Charlie Warzel - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/streaming-services-netflix-max-cost/675264/ Gizmodo: Redbox is finally Deadbox by Oscar Gonzalez - https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/redbox-is-finally-deadbox/ar-BB1pdHSY?ocid=BingNewsSerp The Hollywood Reporter: Streaming Services Beware: A Crackdown Is Coming on “Cancellation Trickery” by Ashley Cullins - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/streaming-services-how-to-cancel-1235535649/ MIT Technology Review: Make no mistake—AI is owned by Big Tech by Amba Kak, Sarah Myers West, Meredith Whittaker - https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1084393/make-no-mistake-ai-is-owned-by-big-tech/#:~:text=All%20rely%20on%20the%20computing%20infrastructure%20of%20Microsoft%2C,by%20these%20tech%20giants%20or%20their%20partner%20startups
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Episode 10: Episode 10: Are the youths wrong or am I just getting old?
Please visit our sponsor at: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Apple Music Top 100 Albums - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Music_100_Best_Albums Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone%27s_500_Greatest_Albums_of_All_Time LA Times: The Legal Tangle of ‘Miseducation’ by Geoff Bucher - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-19-ca-55439-story.html Complex Magazine: What Went Wrong With Lauryn Hill's Career After The Massive Success of 'Miseducation of Lauryn Hill? by Mark Elibert - https://www.complex.com/music/a/markelibert/the-story-behind-lauryn-hills-chaotic-post-miseducation-of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Miseducation_of_Lauryn_Hill Vice Magazine: The Music Industry’s ‘Miseducation’ about Black Women’s Creative Ownership by Marjua Estevez - https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy3a3q/lauryn-hill-miseducation-black-women-music Spin Magazine: The 90 Greatest Albums of the ’90s - https://www.spin.com/2021/12/greatest-90s-albums/ The Pudding: "What Makes An Album the Greatest of all Time?” by Chris Dalla Riva and Matthew Daniels - https://pudding.cool/2024/03/greatest-music/
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Episode 9: Episode 9: 4 Philosophies - 1 Thought Experiment
You can check out our project sponsor here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The Argument for the Difference Principle and the Four Stage Sequence https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/original-position/difference-principle.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck_egalitarianism National Institute of Health - Luck Egalitarianism, Individual Responsibility and Health by Perihan Elif Ekmekçi and Berna Arda https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4497689/ Peter Singer - One World Now (2002) Audiobook quoted; starting at roughly minute 16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entitlement_theory Video by Jeffrey Kaplan - Is Pleasure the Only Good Thing? - Nozick's Experience Machine Thought Experiment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLHmBX3Q850 Video by Jack Miller - The Communitarian Critique of Liberal Individualism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSqipMIA6Mc Michael Sandel - Justice (2009)
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Episode 8: Episode 8: 3 Cheers for Tolerance
Sponsor Link: Another Book Review - https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Bernard Matolino - Defending Rawls on the Self https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/86551f2a-f1c9-45d1-83a4-4a75d22646cf/content Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Josiah Royce entry https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/royce/ Kenneth L. Smith and Ira G. Zepp, Jr.- Martin Luther King’s Vision of the Beloved Community https://www.religion-online.org/article/martin-luther-kings-vision-of-the-beloved-community/#:~:text=King%E2%80%99s%20was%20a%20vision%20of%20a%20completely%20integrated,the%20ideal%20corporate%20expression%20of%20the%20Christian%20faith. Matthew A. Foust - Lectures on Royce https://josiah-royce-edition.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Royce-Pittsburgh-Lectures-III-rev.pdf Wikipedia - Dunbar's Number entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number Wikipedia - Rajneeshpuram entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneeshpuram A Latina Harvard grad advised women to marry older men. The internet had thoughts. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latina-harvard-grad-grazie-sophia-christie-advised-women-marry-older-m-rcna145840 Adrian Shirk - The Romantic, Failed Experiments of American Utopias https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-happiness/2022/06/01/american-communes-failed-experiment Jon Skolnik - “California Forever,” the Billionaire-Backed City No One Asked For https://www.vanityfair.com/news/california-forever-billionaire-backed-city-silicon-valley Juliana Menasce Horowitz and Kim Parker - How Americans View Their Jobs https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/03/30/how-americans-view-their-jobs/
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Episode 7: Episode 7: What I was Wrong About
Check out our spondor here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 The End of the Music Business: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/music-industry-ipod/ What are interconnectors and why are they the key to the renewable energy revolution?: https://www.schroders.com/en-us/us/institutional/insights/what-are-interconnectors-and-why-are-they-the-key-to-the-renewable-energy-revolution-/ Wind and Solar Aren’t Nearly Enough: Why Biden Is Suddenly Supporting Fossil Fuels: https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/05/08/wind_and_solar_are_not_nearly_enough_why_biden_is_suddenly_supporting_fossil_fuels_897517.html New study evaluates the climate impact of the $400 billion Inflation Reduction Act: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2023/07/12/new-study-evaluates-climate-impact-ira Much of the tech world’s climate impact is still being overlooked, and it’s accelerating: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/09/much-of-tech-world-climate-impact-is-overlooked-and-its-growing.html How broadcast news programs covered climate and the 2024 election in 2023 — and what coverage should include going forward: https://www.mediamatters.org/media-matters-studies-climate-change-coverage/how-broadcast-news-programs-covered-climate-and-2024 Shifting U.S. to 100 Percent Renewables Would Cost $4.5 Trillion, Analysis Finds: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/shifting-u-s-to-100-percent-renewables-would-cost-4-5-trillion-analysis-finds#:~:text=Converting%20the%20entire%20U.S.%20power,energy%20research%20firm%20Wood%20Mackenzie. What’s the price of a green economy? An extra $3.5 trillion a year: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/01/net-zero-cost-3-5-trillion-a-year/ You Will Have to Make Sacrifices to Save the Planet: https://newrepublic.com/article/154036/will-make-sacrifices-save-planet Most Important Problem: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1675/Most-Important-Problem.aspx
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Episode 6: Episode 6: The one about College
You can check out our sponsor here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Looming Enrollment Cliff Poses Serious Threat to Colleges: https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/looming-enrollment-cliff-poses-serious-threat-to-colleges/ Why So Many Young Men Are Abandoning College Degrees: https://www.newsweek.com/young-men-abandoning-college-degrees-gender-gap-1855825 Health care and higher education: Key drivers of long-term inflation: https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/591995-health-care-and-higher-education-key-drivers-of-long-term-inflation/ Falling College Wage Premiums by Race and Ethnicity: https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/economic-letter/2023/08/falling-college-wage-premiums-by-race-and-ethnicity/ You Still Need a Degree: https://www.businessinsider.com/college-degree-good-job-market-skill-based-hiring-employers-2024-2 Fact of the Week: Apprenticeships in the US Increased by 66 Percent Between 2011 and 2021: https://itif.org/publications/2023/04/03/apprenticeships-in-the-us-increased-by-66-percent-between-2011-and-2021/ College Tuition Inflation: Compare The Cost Of College Over Time: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/student-loans/college-tuition-inflation/ More U.S. companies no longer requiring job seekers to have a college degree: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-degree-job-requirement/ The College Wage Premium: https://www.clevelandfed.org/publications/economic-commentary/2012/ec-201210-the-college-wage-premium Did Employers in the United States Back Away from Skills Training during the early 2000s?: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0019793915619904
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Episode 5: Episode 5: The Past, Present, and Future of K-12 Education
Shownotes and Sponsor Information Below Another Book Review : https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB)? - https://www.understood.org/en/articles/no-child-left-behind-nclb-what-you-need-to-know America's Education Problem - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/podcasts/the-daily/education.html It's Been 20 Years Since No Child Left Behind. What'd we learn? - https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickhess/2022/09/21/its-been-20-years-since-no-child-left-behind-whatd-we-learn/?sh=73275d726331 Comparing No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top - https://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/rpt/2010-r-0235.htm NAEP Scores ‘Flashing Red’ After a Lost Generation of Learning for 13-Year-Olds - https://www.the74million.org/article/naep-scores-flashing-red-after-a-lost-generation-of-learning-for-13-year-olds/ The Pandemic has had devasting impacts on learning. What will it take to help students catch up? - https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-pandemic-has-had-devastating-impacts-on-learning-what-will-it-take-to-help-students-catch-up/ New research finds that pandemic learning loss impacted whole communities, regardless of student race or income - https://cepr.harvard.edu/news/new-research-finds-pandemic-learning-loss-impacted-whole-communities-regardless-student#:~:text=Within%20the%20typical%20school%20district,regardless%20of%20income%20or%20race. Should the School Year be Extended to make up for learning loss? - https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/4326503-should-the-school-year-be-extended-to-make-up-for-learning-loss/ Education Doesn’t Work 2.0 - https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/education-doesnt-work-20
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Episode 4: Episode 4: Capitalism in the 21st Century - An Optimist's Vision
Check out my sponsor's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Shownotes : The decline of the American Dream, with David Leonhardt: https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-decline-of-the-american-dream-with-david-leonhardt/ Pro-Natal Policies Work, But They Come With a Hefty Price Tag: https://ifstudies.org/blog/pro-natal-policies-work-but-they-come-with-a-hefty-price-tag When Does Federal Debt Reach Unsustainable Levels: https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2023/10/6/when-does-federal-debt-reach-unsustainable-levels These are the wealthiest US states, according to a new report — and a wealth tax on the country's richest would raise $415 billion: https://www.businessinsider.com/map-wealthiest-states-us-wealth-tax-would-raise-billions-2022-10 Ephemerality: Another radical design concept for the climate revolution: https://lloydalter.substack.com/p/ephemerality-another-radical-design?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 Billionaires got 54% richer during pandemic, sparking calls for "wealth tax": https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billionaire-wealth-covid-pandemic-12-trillion-jeff-bezos-wealth-tax/ What Is Pay Transparency and Which States Require It?: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/pay-transparency-laws Americans Showing Increased Concern About Immigration: https://news.gallup.com/poll/470426/americans-showing-increased-concern-immigration.aspx Shifting U.S. to 100 Percent Renewables Would Cost $4.5 Trillion, Analysis Finds: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/shifting-u-s-to-100-percent-renewables-would-cost-4-5-trillion-analysis-finds An affordable, reliable, competitive path to net zero: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/sustainability/our-insights/an-affordable-reliable-competitive-path-to-net-zero The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2023 to 2033: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58848 The Coming Technological Singularity, © 1993 by Vernor Vinge: https://accelerating.org/articles/comingtechsingularity Economics of the Stars: The Future of Asteroid Mining and the Global Economy: https://hir.harvard.edu/economics-of-the-stars/#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20Asterank%2C%20which%20measures%20the%20potential%20value,value%E2%80%93would%20produce%20a%20profit%20of%20around%20US%241.5%20trillion. Space-Based Solar Power: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/otps-sbsp-report-final-tagged-approved-1-8-24-tagged-v2.pdf?emrc=744da1 The American dream is 'rapidly diminishing,' Walgreens boss says in plea to raise taxes for the wealthy: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-american-dream-is-rapidly-diminishing-walgreens-boss-says-in-plea-to-raise-taxes-for-the-wealthy/ar-AA1n8qPn?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=48ce5233a61a4672ac31e60767fc903d&ei=27 Bill Gates thinks the super-wealthy should pay more tax – and plenty of rich people agree https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/bill-gates-thinks-the-super-wealthy-should-pay-more-tax-and-plenty-of-rich-people-agree/ar-BB1gYWtA
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Episode 3: Episode 3: Will AI Take Over the World?
Please visit our sponsor, Another Book Review, here: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Links and Show Notes here: Chat GpT Sets record for fastest-growing user-base: https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-fastest-growing-user-base-analyst-note-2023-02-01/ VCs Invested over $75B in AI Startups in 2020: https://venturebeat.com/business/vcs-invested-over-75b-in-ai-startups-in-2020/ Meta's "single largest investment" is now AI, not the metaverse : https://www.techradar.com/news/metas-single-largest-investment-is-now-ai-not-the-metaverse Ezra Klein Show - A Skeptical Take on the AI Revolution: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-skeptical-take-on-the-a-i-revolution/id1548604447?i=1000592835492 Generative AI in the Pharmaceutical Industry - Moving from Hype to Reality: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/life-sciences/our-insights/generative-ai-in-the-pharmaceutical-industry-moving-from-hype-to-reality MIT News - An Artificial Intelligence tool that can help detect melanoma: https://news.mit.edu/2021/artificial-intelligence-tool-can-help-detect-melanoma-0402 The Daily: Ready or Not, Driverless Cars are Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ready-or-not-driverless-cars-are-here/id1200361736?i=1000625369770 Science, Mathematics, and Research for Tranformation (SMART) is a DoD Scholarship Program for STEM Students: https://www.smartscholarship.org/smart/en World Economic Forum - These are the jobs that AI can't replace: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/05/jobs-ai-cant-replace/ The Guardian - New York City schools ban AI chatbot that writes essays and answers prompts: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/new-york-city-schools-ban-ai-chatbot-chatgpt Center for AI safety - Statement on AI Risk: https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk Gallup Research - Americans' Trust in Media Remains Near Record Low: https://news.gallup.com/poll/403166/americans-trust-media-remains-near-record-low.aspx AFL-CIO - Artificial Intelligence Transparency will Fight the Dehumanization of the American Workforce, says AFL-CIO Equity Index Funds Shareholder Proposal: https://aflcio.org/2023/10/19/artificial-intelligence-transparency-will-fight-dehumanization-american-workforce-says Softonic - Samsung plans to robotize 100% of its chip factories: goodbye to human labor? : https://en.softonic.com/articles/samsung-plans-to-robotize-100-of-its-chip-factories-goodbye-to-human-labor
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Episode 2: Episode 2: Will Mandatory National Service Heal the Nation?
Show Notes and Links to articles: Sponsor YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Stanley McChrystal: Every American Should Serve For One Year - Time Magazine https://time.com/4824366/year-national-service-americorps-peace-corps/ 21st Century Conservation Corps http://21csc.org/list-of-21csc-partners/ The Need for a Mandatory National Service Program by Steve Cohen - US Naval Institute https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/april/need-mandatory-national-service-program AmeriCorps NCCC Press Release for Forest Corps https://americorps.gov/newsroom/press-release/applications-join-new-american-climate-corps-program-americorps-nccc-forest Budget Basics: National Defense - Peter G Peterson Foundation https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/budget-explainer-national-defense A Closer Look at Discretionary Spending- Congressional Budget Officer https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58890 Army of Some: Recruiting Trouble for the All-Volunteer Force - Why it Matters Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/army-of-some-recruiting-trouble-for-the-all-volunteer-force/id1482132871?i=1000610785591 The Military-Civilian Gap: Fewer Family Connections https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2011/11/23/the-military-civilian-gap-fewer-family-connections/ So it's come to this: We Might Have to Worry about the Deficit - Vox Media https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/so-it-s-come-to-this-we-might-have-to-worry-about-the-deficit/ar-AA1lFPoZ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=91dd497429974b8d89bd4a5b78bf8e63&ei=22 National Center for Education Statistics: Fast Facts https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=84
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Episode 1: Episode 1: 4 Scenarios for the 2024 Presedential Election
Show Notes and Links to articles: To repeat, nothing I say on this episode should be taken as an endorsement of any candidates, political parties, or political movements / idealogies. All thoughts expressed are solely my own. Sponsor YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@anotherbookreview9903 Half of Americans think the Economy is Getting Worse: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/politics/cnn-poll-economic-pessimism-joe-biden/index.html 53% of Americans Disapprove of the President: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-BIDEN/POLL/nmopagnqapa/ Voters Dread a Trump-Biden Rematch: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/us/politics/rfk-jr-trump-biden-poll.html Reddit article on Inflation Reducation Act: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/18df138/bidens_2022_inflation_reduction_act_includes_370/ What Election Charges Does Trump Face and How Can he Fight them?: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-election-interference-charges-does-trump-face-how-can-he-fight-them-2023-08-02/ What Happens if Trump is Convicted Before Election Day?: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-convicted-before-election-day-what-if/ Trump Surges Ahead of Biden in Crucial Swing States: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-surges-ahead-of-biden-in-crucial-swing-states/ss-AA1lDv1J?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=203dde10f7a0496a8ab6da068ffb3c34&ei=54#image=1 As Black Voters Drift Towards Trump, Biden Allies say they have Work to Do: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/us/politics/biden-trump-black-voters-poll-democrats.html
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