Ep 57 | Airline Chaos, (Un)Happy The Elephant, Jan. 6 Hearings, FDA vs. Smoking
Ravi, Cory, and Rikki start by explaining the chaotic state of air travel these days, before turning to yet more damning updates on the police response in Uvalde and a breakthrough in the Senate on gu...
23 Juni 202249min
Ep 56 | Sentient AI, Self-Driving Safety, Rural WiFi, Location Data, Twitter & Society
Ravi, Cory, and Rikki jump into #TechTuesday (patent pending) with a big question: what constitutes sentience, and does Google’s AI chatbot LaMDA pass the test? Then we turn to the push to regulate th...
21 Juni 202240min
Ep 55 | Bear Market, Legalizing Weed, Russia’s War Efforts, Biden vs. Charter Schools
Ravi, Cory, and Rikki start with America’s inflation crisis, the Fed’s efforts to combat it, and the resulting bear market. Then the hosts turn to the recent discourse around the alleged societal harm...
17 Juni 202244min
Ep 54 | Reparations, Boudin Recall, NYC Casinos, Campus Free Speech
Ravi, Cory, and Rikki start with the recall vote that ousted San Francisco’s progressive DA, Chesa Boudin before turning to NYC’s plans to throw a couple casinos in the concrete jungle and Ilya Shapir...
9 Juni 202247min
Ep 53 | Depp-Heard Fallout, Saudi Oil, Crypto Mining, Class Size, Rescue Rats
Ravi, Cory, and Rikki start with all the fallout from the double-edged defamation trial that captured a nation: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Then the hosts tour the campus of a Facebook-funded “Metave...
7 Juni 202248min
Ep 52 | Legalizing Sex Work, WFH Trends, Buy Now Pay Maybe, School Counselors
Ravi, Cory, and Rikki start by checking in on the slowing work-from-home trend before turning to a growing one: the rise of Buy Now, Pay Later. We then turn to the Biden administration’s approach to i...
2 Juni 202248min
Ep 51 | Uvalde Timeline, Durham Probe, SCOTUS Leak, Housing Market
Ravi, Cory, and Rikki start with the outrage over the police response to the Uvalde school shooting, as new details emerge about the timeline of that tragedy. They then turn to the latest revelations ...
31 Maj 202240min
The Regressives Ep. 5 | Progressive Hypocrisy on School Choice
"School choice" is among the most politicized phrases in America, mainly because it means different things to different people. Charter schools are at the heart of that divisive debate, pitting progre...
29 Maj 202244min
