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Hello Uglies

Afterthought Media

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Joe Betance and Lauri Roggenkamp recap the drag competition show "Dragula: the search for the world's next drag supermonster." Hosted by Dracmorda and Swanthula (the Boulet Brothers), Dragula is available on Amazon Prime in the US and OutTV in Canada.
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Catching Up

Afterthought Media

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Mike lives in San Francisco. Joe lives in Los Angeles. They've been friends for over a decade. And each week they call one another and just...catch up.
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Headlong: Surviving Y2K

Topic / Pineapple Street Media / Dan Taberski

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December 31, 1999: The world braced for disaster as midnight approached. Then, nothing happened. The hysteria over the Y2K computer bug quickly became an afterthought; a punch-line. In Surviving Y2K, Dan Taberski takes you back to the turn of the millennium to meet the people for whom it was anything but a joke — computer coders, conspiracy theorists, survivalists, and true believers — as they each face their own version of the apocalypse. And Dan tells a new millennium story of his own, abo ...
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About Men Radio

Pedro Rafael Rosado & Christopher Mele

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About Men Radio is a show about men. Not all men, mind you, but specifically about lifelong friends coping with rapidly changing gender roles and how they interact with their partners, their kids, their co-workers and each other. We post periodically but each episode is funny, feisty and very, very real.
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From global technology consulting firm Tag1 Consulting, Tag1 Team Talks are wide-ranging, in-depth conversations about implementing various open-source technologies, including the business prerogatives and technical ins and outs with leading web developers and technologists. Join us as we explore trends in open source. About Tag1 At Tag1, we are redefining the boundaries of digital possibilities. As a leading name in the industry, we are committed to delivering innovative and tailored soluti ...
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Welcome to the Korean American Parenting Podcast, where we share the idiosyncrasies, struggles, joys and pains of being a Korean American parent, not just Korean or American, navigating the unique cross cultural challenges of parenthood. Hosts Jang Cho and Jerry Won chat with fellow parents and parenting experts about topics like academics, health both physical and mental, culture, and of course how current events such as COVID have impacted all of our lives in numerous ways. Our hope is tha ...
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The holidays come early on this week’s Hello Uglies as Joe and Lauri unwrap Dragula: Titans Episode 5, “Holidays of Horror.” The monsters deck the halls with filth, horror, and a surprising double extermination that leaves the hosts both impressed and a little exhausted. Joe kicks off with the usual chaos, plugging Just Between Us Ghouls and recapp…
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School marketing and communications with Charlie Maughan, Rita Kilroy and James Tindall In this episode of SMC, Charlie and Rita are joined by Senior Account Manager James Tindall to chat about why it's time for school marketers to stop chasing clicks and start building brands that last. In Making News, the team first discuss fresh data showing CMO…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: It's always been a pleasure to talk to you in the mornings about what's going on and how the press is covering it. But honestly, ever since the first Tuesday of last November, getting up in the morning and immediately surveying the state of current events has been pretty discouraging. Pretty much every day, the news has been …
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: [THE WASHINGTON POST] "Mr. Cheney supported tax cuts and defense spending increases, like nearly all Republicans, but he joined the rightmost wing in voting against a federal holiday honoring the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the Equal Rights Amendment, creation of the Education Department, a ban on armor-pierci…
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Joe Betance and Lauri Roggenkamp sink their fangs into Dragula: Titans Season 2, Episode 4 — “Return to the Nosferatu Beach Party.” This week’s episode is packed with blood, garlic, and pure chaos as the Boulet Brothers challenge the monsters to stomach some horrifying delicacies and perform a beachy floor show that turns into a full-blown nightmar…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: [THE NEW YORK TIMES] "Randy Shumway, chairman of the state Homeless Services Board, said in an interview, ‘Utah will end a harmful culture of permissiveness,’ he said, ‘and guide homeless people towards human thriving.’” An accountability center. Because if there's one lesson that homeless people with drug addiction problems …
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Just doing a funny accent, gobbling up his ketchup treats, grooving to YMCA. Extremely normal things for the leader of a superpower on the world stage. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIGNITY MORNING PODCASTBy TOM SCOCCA
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Inside the paper on page A20, the Times reports on a breakdown in solidarity fighting the shutdown. “Top Federal Workers Union breaks with Democrats over the shutdown. AFGE chief calls on Congress to open now and negotiate later. The largest union of federal workers called on Monday for Congress to pass a spending bill to imm…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Bloomberg is reporting that Trump Media, the social media company owned by President Trump, the single person with the greatest power to personally cause events to happen in the world is going to start selling gambling contracts on prediction markets. “Trump Media and Technology Group Corp.” Bloomberg writes “plans to make pr…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: “With no end in sight to the nearly month-long federal government shutdown,” the Times writes, “funding for the nation's largest food assistance program, known as SNAP, will disappear at the start of November, according to the Department of Agriculture. On Friday, the Trump administration said in a memo that it would not tap …
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Hello Uglies — Titans Season 2, Episode 3: “A Gothic Wedding”Episode Summary This week, Joe and Lauri return to the crypt for a wedding like no other! The monsters of Dragula: Titans Season 2 walk down a blood-soaked aisle as gothic brides and grooms, but behind the veils, the claws are out. Accusations of fakery, narc-ing, and fanbase manipulation…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: On the website, the Times this morning published a piece that really digs into and emphasizes the point that its reporters keep making, down inside the incremental coverage of Donald Trump's ongoing campaign of slaughter at sea. It's a NEWS ANALYSIS piece by Charlie Savage, “The peril of a White House that flaunts its indiffe…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The process of tearing down the East Wing,” the story continues, “was expected to be completed as soon as this weekend, two senior administration officials said, as Mr. Trump moved rapidly to carry out a passion project that he said was necessary to host state dinners and other events. But,” the story then says, “the previous…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Donald Trump's demolition of the East Wing of the White House continued yesterday, advancing well past the facade to smash the main structure. The New York Times belatedly realized that this was, in fact, front page news, and put the picture on the front page at the top, four columns wide. But, being the Times, decided that t…
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Hello Uglies – Titans Season 2, Episode 2: “The Monsters of Rock: Cyberpussy” In this episode of Hello Uglies, Joe Betance and Lauri Roggenkamp take on the electrifying—and chaotic—second episode of Dragula: Titans Season 2, “The Monsters of Rock: Cyberpussy.” The monsters are bussed into the desert for a mysterious cyberpunk music challenge that p…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Protesters showing up to wave Israeli flags outside the building does not mean that the "tension was spilling out of the synagogue." It's like when anti semitic protesters showed up on Broadway outside the fence of Columbia University, and their behavior was incorporated into the brief against the Columbia campus protesters, …
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The headline is "Trump Weighs Transforming Refugee Policy / White People Would Be Given Preference." Here again, the bigotry is so blatant that the headline writers couldn't even sustain neutral euphemism long enough to get through the subhead. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDI…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: President Donald Trump announced that the United States had murdered six more people on the high seas yesterday, in its fifth unprovoked attack on unarmed boats in the Caribbean, "asserting," as the New York Times puts it, "without evidence that they had been transporting drugs." Along with the social media post announcing th…
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🕸️ Hello Uglies: Titans Season 2, Episode 1 — “Halloween House Party 2” The monsters are back from the grave, and so are Joe and Lauri! In this premiere of Dragula: Titans Season 2, the Boulet Brothers resurrect fourteen ghouls for another round of filth, horror, and glamour. The fright feat? Pulling pins from a voodoo doll. The main challenge? A H…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: There's not much point in quibbling about a prize that already went to Henry Kissinger, but US-backed regime change and peace don't usually end up on the same side of the ledger. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIGNITY MORNING PODCAST…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The final story above the fold has the headline “Far Outside the U.S., Kirk’s Memory Has Become a Political Tool / Public Tribute in Peru by a Mayor Seeking Trump’s Help.” The story pretty heavily contradicts the headline, in that it documents that in Lima there really isn't any such thing as the memory of Charlie Kirk. Even …
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The Times’s designated campus scold Anemona Hartocollis has a new headline to scandalize the readers. “Harvard Finds Skipping Class Part of Culture. Harvard University is one of the most difficult schools to gain admission to” she writes, “with the school turning away some 97% of applicants every year. But, once they get in, …
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: There is no job report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning. The numbers were reportedly compiled but are not being released, due to the government shutdown. Surely this is a neutral logistical decision on the bureau's part, and the numbers would stay in a file drawer even if they were positive for the Trump admin…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: There we have one of the basic problems with writing about the Trump administration and what its officials said, in that pretty much every part of that paraphrase is false. The review was not in response to Donald Trump's executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion. It was quite obviously in response to the govern…
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School marketing and communications with Charlie Maughan, Rita Kilroy and Harrison Shearn In this episode, Charlie is joined by Rita and Digital Marketing Specialist, Harrison, to explore some eye-opening stats from the marketing world. From job-switching in the industry, to the surprisingly low awareness of brand purpose, and even why ads perform …
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Back on page one, at the top left of the page, the headline is, “Comey Is Stuck In Long Feud With President / A Bad Start Escalated Into an Indictment.” The bad start was James Comey as FBI director telling Donald Trump in their first meeting when Trump was president-elect that there were allegations circulating about Trump a…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: This is how Peter Baker decided to respond to the spectacle of the complete collapse of the rule of law, by somehow simultaneously assuming the posture of a kindergarten teacher and of a child sucking its thumb on a sleepy mat. Boy, those Republicans sure wouldn't like it if someone treated them the way that they're treating …
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Speaking of declining literacy, in the international news on page A6, there's the headline, “Some Poo-Poo an Italian City Tax Designed to Combat Dog Waste.” That's P-O-O hyphen P-O-O. Completely amateur attempted wordplay. The term “pooh-pooh” for disparaging something is spelled with H’s, so it's not a clever piece of wordpl…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Below the jump for that story on page A15, the headline is “SEC dropped a civil complaint against a former client of its Trump-picked chairman. In 2018,” the Times writes, “Paul Atkins was paid $1,450 an hour to be an expert witness by Devin Archer's lawyers as they tried to undermine accusations that their client defrauded a…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The great difficulty in trying to convey what happens with this president and this presidency is that Donald Trump is a profoundly addled and frivolous person who doesn't care or understand the things he says or does, but he is also the president of the United States, so that the things that he says and does are real and seri…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: In the abstract, in principle, this isn't a terrible way for a mainstream publication to express skepticism toward official claims, but to politely and firmly rebut the claims put forward yesterday, to rationalize them into a new step toward reframing autism, is to miss the entire tenor of the thing. The story then tries to d…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Jeremy W. Peters' nonsense, flattering as it does the sensibilities and sensitivities of the people who run the paper, gets page one, and again, a straight news story package, whereas Adam Liptak, writing about how the actual removal of Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves, as the Trump administration threatened to use its regulato…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Knowing that the Senate went ahead and jammed through Kimberly Guilfoyle's appointment to be an ambassador at the expense of longstanding procedural rules just affirms the already established situation of the Senate. Framing it as a steady erosion of John Thune's values as an institutionalist is kind of funny, but likewise no…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Before we get to the larger news, we're going to start with something very small, or at least something petty, that turns out astonishingly and yet obviously, to be of world historic import. It's in a passage by Ben Smith writing for Semafor. “The Trump administration,” Smith writes, “from the president down to the middle lev…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Hamstringing the FBI's ability to investigate financial fraud doesn't seem like things backfiring for the Trump administration exactly. Seems more like one of their more successful integrated policy initiatives. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIGNITY MORNING PODCAST…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The administration may have accused Venezuelan cartels of bringing fentanyl into the United States, but the New York Times has reported that Venezuela plays essentially no role in the fentanyl trade. The story does return to the fact that there is no legal basis for these killings, but it mostly slides past the fact that the …
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The Times writes, “Mr. Kirk would arrive at colleges ready for rhetorical combat, willing to engage on the thorniest topics from abortion rights to race. the topic of race.” Ah, that “topic” of race. Right. His opinion on the "topic" of race was that black people were inherently mentally inferior to white people and only owed…
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Shooting a retreating unarmed vessel and then making sure to massacre any survivors, would be absolutely illegal in a war, which again, is not what this was. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIGNITY MORNING PODCASTBy TOM SCOCCA
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Donald Trump's participation in Jeffrey Epstein's sleazy birthday book makes its way onto the front page in a NEWS ANALYSIS piece. “Epstein Revelations Hindering Trump’s Attempts to Turn Page.” It's illustrated with an infographic, “Signature With a Characteristic Flourish. The president has denied signing a birthday message …
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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Way inside the paper, on page A16, down at the bottom, the headline is “Drawing for Epstein, apparently signed by Trump, is released.” “Key congressional committee on Monday,” the Times writes, “obtained a note and sexually suggestive drawing, apparently signed by Donald J. Trump, and included in a book for the disgraced fina…
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