George Shea: Hot Dog Villain
Jamie Loftus is joined by Robert Evans to discuss George Shea the founder of Major League Eating who popularized the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
10 Feb 20221h 31min
The Man Who Pioneered Libraries and Sexual Harassment
Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus to discuss John Dewey.FOOTNOTES; https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/09/melvil-dewey-american-libraryassociation-award-name-change.html https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2018/06/01/melvil-dewey-bringingharassment-out-of-the-history-books/ https://bookriot.com/life-of-melvil-dewey/ https://bookriot.com/racism-in-the-dewey-decimal-system/ https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2020/11/melvil-dewey-efficient-inventive-annoying-racistsexist/ https://www.history.com/news/the-father-of-modern-libraries-was-a-serial-sexualharasser https://daily.jstor.org/melvil-deweys-attempt-at-a-spelling-revolution/ https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/melvil-dewey-the-womanizing-ocdlibrarian-who-organized-the-olympics/ https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2014/03/24/melvil-dewey-compulsiveinnovator/ https://web.archive.org/web/20081010135016/www.hwwilson.com/databases/PDFsample/WLB/dewey.pdf https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.7.3.0096 http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2019/07/the-progressive-feminist-whofounded.html?m=1 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
8 Feb 20221h 17min
It Could Happen Here Weekly 20
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.Join us on 2/17 for a live digital experience of Behind the Bastards (plus Q&A) featuring Robert Evans, Propaganda, & Sophie Lichterman. If you can't make it, the show will be available for replay until 2/24!Tickets: https://www.momenthouse.com/behindthebastards Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
5 Feb 20223h 6min
It Could Happen Here Weekly 20
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.Join us on 2/17 for a live digital experience of Behind the Bastards (plus Q&A) featuring Robert Evans, Propaganda, & Sophie Lichterman. If you can't make it, the show will be available for replay until 2/24!Tickets: https://www.momenthouse.com/behindthebastards Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
5 Feb 20222h 56min
Part Two: The Food And Drug Administration
Robert is again joined by Matt Lieb to continue to discuss the Food And Drug Administration. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
3 Feb 20221h 2min
Part One: The Food And Drug Administration
Robert is joined by Matt Lieb to discuss the Food And Drug Administration.FOOTNOTES: Blum, Deborah. The Poison Squad (pp. 84-85). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives/upton-sinclair-meat-industry https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/19th-century-fight-bacteria-ridden-milk-embalming-fluid-180970473/ Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat Marion Nestle Basic (2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07038-0 https://today.uconn.edu/2021/05/why-is-the-fda-funded-in-part-by-the-companies-it-regulates-2/# https://www.fraud-magazine.com/article.aspx?id=4294967770 https://www.npr.org/2007/11/10/5470430/timeline-the-rise-and-fall-of-vioxx https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5462419 https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/health/fda-approval-drug-events-study/index.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/has-the-drug-based-approach-to-mental-illness-failed/ https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-fda-failures-contributed-opioid-crisis/2020-08 https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-basics/when-and-why-was-fda-formed#:%7E:text=Though%20FDA%20can%20trace%20its,Pure%20Food%20and%20Drugs%20Act. https://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Article/2005/05/30/Whistleblowers-reveal-FDA-exacerbated-Vioxx-scandal https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/04/14/399591292/why-the-fda-is-clueless-about-some-of-the-additives-in-our-food https://blogs.edf.org/health/2020/09/23/fdas-failure-food-chemical-safety-chronic-diseases/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1 Feb 20221h 8min
It Could Happen Here Weekly 19
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.Join us on 2/17 for a live digital experience of Behind the Bastards (plus Q&A) featuring Robert Evans, Propaganda, & Sophie Lichterman. If you can't make it, the show will be available for replay until 2/24!Tickets: https://www.momenthouse.com/behindthebastards Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
29 Jan 20223h 18min
It Could Happen Here Weekly 19
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.Join us on 2/17 for a live digital experience of Behind the Bastards (plus Q&A) featuring Robert Evans, Propaganda, & Sophie Lichterman. If you can't make it, the show will be available for replay until 2/24!Tickets: https://www.momenthouse.com/behindthebastards Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
29 Jan 20223h 8min
