ORLY-EP0148C - The Gig Economy and Writing for Amazon

ORLY-EP0148C - The Gig Economy and Writing for Amazon

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #148 recorded Friday, March 24th, 2017 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Amber Biesecker, David O’Connor, Stephen Griffith, and Daniel Atherton.

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Robots Deliver Takeout Extended into a conversation on the Gig Economy that was worth breaking out into it's own segment. Below is the story that fostered the conversation. this ocurs directly in line with the previous show item and leads directly to the next.
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/03/23/520848983/hungry-call-your-neighborhood-delivery-robot

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ORLY-EP0147 - The Trump Budget Examined

ORLY-EP0147 - The Trump Budget Examined

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #147 recorded Friday, March 17th, 2017 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Amber Biesecker and Daniel Atherton.

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  1. White House releases a budget proposal for consideration. It’s a thing… https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/amendment_03_16_18.pdf https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-presidential-budget-2018-proposal/

  2. Paul Ryan Tells it like it is, btw, he is the Speaker of the House and the Head of the GOP aside from the Executive Branch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3Px11xN-0

 

  1. Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEuEUQIP3Q

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Science Bitches!  

  1. https://futurism.com/we-can-officially-collect-solar-energy-without-solar-panels/

  2. Needed action on climate change to save reefs. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/16/520450521/study-urgent-action-against-global-warming-needed-to-save-coral-reefs

Law & Order:

  1. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/supreme-court-jury-bias-secrecy.html

  2. http://www.salon.com/2017/03/01/the-supreme-court-just-delivered-a-major-victory-for-gerrymandering-opponents/

  3. White House fights its own agency in court. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-consumer-idUSKBN16O2SQ

  4. Disney forced to pay after Federal investigation. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-bz-disney-wages-labor-violations-20170317-story.html

Good Ideas:

  1. http://educateinspirechange.org/nature/environment/cost-iphone-can-now-buy-wind-turbine-can-power-entire-house-lifetime/

  2. Maryland passes sick leave bill. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-veto-proof-sick-time-passed-20170316-story.html

  3. http://tucson.com/news/local/supreme-court-affirms-arizona-s-higher-minimum-wage/article_b7c5a0f7-1ab5-57cb-a1b5-a3da180da7b2.html

Bad Ideas:

  1. White House dialing up Taiwan arms deal http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taiwan-arms-idUSKBN16O2LQ

  2. Trump wishes to build a large Naval Fleet, but where are the skilled workers? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-shipbuilding-insight-idUSKBN16O142

  3. Florida Republicans just can’t stand food stamps http://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/03/16/florida-republicans-want-to-take-food-stamps-away-from-over-200000-poor-people

HOW BAD COULD IT BE?

  1. Netherlands parliament election http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-election-netherlands-vote-results-latest-mark-rutte-geert-wilders-a7634041.html?cmpid=facebook-post

ORLY-EP0145B - Day 30-36 of Trump Shards of Dan's Soul

ORLY-EP0145B - Day 30-36 of Trump Shards of Dan's Soul

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #145 recorded Friday February 24th, 2017 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Amber Biesecker, Daniel Atherton, and David O'Connor.

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Day 30 Saturday 2/18/2017 Tony Ledbetter, the coordinator of President Donald Trump's campaign rally Saturday in Melbourne, Fla., said the event would be the president's "first re-election rally."http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/02/18/donald-trump-campaign-rally-coordinator-melbourne-florida

Day 30 Saturday 2/18/2017 A Trump draft budget circulated over the weekend called for the elimination of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), which has a $375m annual budget and provides free legal assistance to low-income people and others in need of help, with cases involving disability benefits, disaster relief, elder abuse, fair pay, wheelchair access, low-income tax credits, unlawful eviction, child support, consumer scams, school lunch, predatory lending and much more.

Day 31 Sunday 2/19/2017 Trump gets his news and facts from Fox News. When he made up the terrorist attack in Sweden at his rally, he was referencing something he vaguely heard on the Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News.

Day 31 Sunday 2/19/2017 According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump’s people are looking into changing the way the U.S. trade deficit is calculated,

Day 32 Monday 2/20/2017 Trump has named army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster to the post of National Security Adviser to fill the role vacated by the departing Flynn.

Day 33 Tuesday 2/21/2017 The Washington Post has tallied up the Trump lies for the first 33 days of his administration, and they average roughly four per day.

Day 33 Tuesday 2/21/2017 Calexit, the effort being lead to precipitate the secession of California from the United States …is being lead by a man with significant, comprehensive, horrifically worrying ties to and basis in Russia. From all appearances, it would seem that Russia is attempting a multi-pronged approach to crack the United States of America in half.

Day 34 Wednesday 2/22/2017 Trump Rescinds Rules on Bathrooms for Transgender Students: Mr. Trump sided with his attorney general, the Republicans said, and told Ms. DeVos in a meeting in the Oval Office on Tuesday that he wanted her to drop her opposition. And Ms. DeVos, faced with the alternative of resigning or defying the president, agreed to go along.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/us/politics/devos-sessions-transgender-students-rights.html

Day 35 Thursday 2/23/2017 DeVos responds to revoked transgender protections: Example of Obama admin 'overreach'http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/320882-devos-responds-to-revoked-transgender-protections-example-of-obama

Day 35 Thursday 2/23/2017 The National Rifle Association, which coincidentally has the largest lobby in the world in the same exact same developed nation with the highest homicide rate per capita, declares its support for Trump in a “counter resistance”, citing they will protect Trump against the “forces that conspired against him”.

Day 35 Thursday 2/23/2017 (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions signaled Thursday his strong support for the federal government’s continued use of private prisons, reversing an Obama administration directive to phase out their use. Stock prices of major private prison companies rose at the news.http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/sessions-us-to-continue-use-of-privately-run-prisons/

Day 36 Friday 2/24/2017 The New York Times, CNN, and other news outlets have been barred from the White House press briefing room.

Day 36 Friday 2/24/2017 Therapists are having a tough time talking about Trump with their patients. According to the article by the Los Angeles Times, therapists report that the last time so many people wanted to discuss the same traumatic issue it was the attacks of September 11th, 2001. Trump is as damaging to the national psyche as 9/11, medically.

Day 36 Friday 2/24/2017 Trump establishes “reform officers” in government agencies, responsible for imposing the administration’s agenda and pursuing his “regulatory priorities going forward”.

Day 36 Friday 2/24/2017  Leaked GOP Obamacare replacement shrinks subsidies, Medicaid expansion
The replacement would be paid for by limiting tax breaks on generous health plans people get at work.http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/house-republicans-obamacare-repeal-package-235343
http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015a-70de-d2c6-a7db-78ff707e0000

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ORLY-EP0145A - When to fight, when to run

ORLY-EP0145A - When to fight, when to run   

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #145 recorded Friday February 24th, 2017 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Stephen Griffith, Amber Biesecker, Fred Sims, Daniel Atherton, and JP.

Audience Feedback From Previous Shows:

From listener Kristen R.

Hello. I liked the discussion that went on in this episode and wanted to contribute with two questions.

The first question is: When is violence the appropriate answer?

Every time I ask this question, people immediately snap back with "Violence is NEVER the answer! NEVER!!!" I feel that this is a short sighted answer with no thought or consideration put into it.

How bad would things have to get before violence becomes the appropriate answer? What kind of events or situations would that look like which would warrant a violent response?

My second question is: When is it time to flee the country? How bad would things have to get before the decision to flee becomes essential? What would have to happen that would cause you to start packing up and flee right now?

(for me personally, it would be the beginning construction of a US/Canada border wall and/or the sanctioned arrests of LGBT people, the community which I belong to)

I'm sorry to do this, but I must invoke Godwin's Law of citing Nazi Germany. Our country has some initial parallels of how things became bad there and how things are becoming bad here. I'm curious if the German citizens of that time had similar discussions. How bad would things have to get before they fled or became violent?

Personally, several friends, acquaintances, and I of the LGBT community have been making plans to flee just in case. We're gathering supplies, planning our routes, amassing arms and ammunition for hunting/self defense, and building our long term bug-out bags.

Each person has specialist roles that will help the group as a whole. We currently have a carpentry & construction person, a medical first aid person, a radio & electronics person, a hunter/trapper/fisherman person, an herbalist plant person, a defense/offense person, and several general labor people.

Hopefully we won't need it, but it's better to have and not need rather than to need and not have. We're watching the news closely for if and when we need to go.

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