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Today's episode opens with me taping on an iphone headphone mic talking about how I fried my equipment to the point it froze up on me during a live panel that I was booked to moderate. SIGH

Luckily the audio is better for the interviews. 

First starting at 4:49 I speak with Dr Jonathan Metzl of Vanderbilt University.     @jonathanmetzl He is a Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his MD from the University of Missouri, MA in humanities/poetics and psychiatric internship/residency from Stanford University, and PhD in American culture from University of Michigan. Winner of the 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award, the 2020 APA Benjamin Rush Award for Scholarship, and a 2008 Guggenheim fellowship, Dr. Metzl has written extensively for medical, psychiatric, and popular publications about some of the most urgent hot-button issues facing America and the world. His books include The Protest Psychosis, Prozac on the Couch, Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality. We spoke about his new book Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland.

And every Friday I get to talk to comedian Christian Finnegan @christfinnegan

http://www.christianfinnegan.com/

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10:56 SARAH POSNER  @sarahposner is a reporting fellow with Type Investigations. Her investigative reporting has appeared in Rolling Stone, VICE, The Nation, Mother Jones, The New Republic, HuffPost, and Talking Points Memo. Her coverage and analysis of politics and religion has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The American Prospect, Politico, and many other outlets. She graduated from Wesleyan University and has a law degree from the University of Virginia. Her story "How Trump Took Hate Groups Mainstream," published before the 2016 election, won a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award. We talked about her new book Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump

1:01:26 Brian Kahn @BLkahn is the managing editor at Earthe. He has an MA in Climate and Society from Columbia University and is currently a faculty member for the program. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Grist, the Daily Kos, Mashable, Quartz, Salon and Yale Climate Connections and been cited in the New York Times, Washington Post and Slate. I've done TV and radio interviews on CBC, Sirius XM, Al Jazeera, NPR, SkyNews, i24 News and Wall Street Journal Live. We talked about his latest writing and the consequences of the 2020 elections

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5:00 Dr Jason Johnson / @DrJasonJohnson

"Abolishing the police is about customer service, not protect and serve"

https://thegrio.com/topics/jason-johnson/

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43:05 Wajahat Ali @WajahtaAli http://wajali.com

1:38:27 Maura Quint @behindyourback

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15:46 John Avlon

Ellen Weintraub info John mentioned on Vote by Mail

41:03 Danielle Moodie

1:06:03 Dr Meghan May

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3:20 Boston Globe Columnist, Author and Journalist "The Real Michael Cohen"

22:41 Georgia State Constitutional Law Professor "The Legal Eagle" Eric Segall

53:40 "The Force to attempt reckoning with" Lawyer and legal/political commentator Midwin Charles

1:39:57 and the GOATS Chuck and Mary

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On the Friday episode of Stand Up I almost always have one of my favorite Comic's Christian Finnegan.  (starts at 11:18)

We had another great chat today. Please follow him on twitter and buy his albums

Kenneth C Davis (54:53) is my favorite historian and today's talk was one of my favorite we have ever had. We covered a lot of historical ground and looked as usual at how relevant it is today and why history matters so much. Read his op ed in the NY Times from 2014 about Juneteenth

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My parents join me at the top of today's show to react to today's news and make bird noises

27:05 Sarah Kendzior is a writer and scholar. She is the Co-host of a very important podcast called @gaslitnation

She is the author of the bestsellers THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY (2018) and  HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) which we talked about today

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is a history of the past forty years of American decline and how Trump and his cohort both enabled and benefited from elite criminal impunity. It’s also the story of what it’s like to live day to day in an America dominated by a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government — and what that entrenched corruption means for future generations. If you want to understand where we’re going, you need to know the truth about how we got here

1:08:17 David Litt  a former speechwriter for President Obama and is also a NY Times best selling author of Thanks, Obama: My Hopey Changey White House Years. We talked about his really great, important, well written and researched new book Democracy in one book or less

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10:25 Steven Hassan is a mental health professional who has been helping people leave destructive cults since 1976 after he was deprogrammed from Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. He is the author of four books Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-Selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults, Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves, Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Thoughts & Beliefs, and  The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How The President Uses Mind Control. He is the founding director of the Freedom of Mind Resource Center, located outside Boston.

Starting at 49:35 Barry Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC.

Ritholtz has been called the “blogfather” for his long-standing finance weblog, The Big Picture

Ritholtz is the creator and host of Masters in Business, the most popular podcast/show on Bloomberg Radio.

In 2008-09, Ritholtz wrote the book Bailout Nation, published by Wiley in 2009; with an updated paperback released in 2010.

1:47: 57 Dr Arthur Caplan is a bioethicist at NYU. We continued our conversation  the bio ethics of pandemics, quarantines, vaccinations and how terrible the Trump administration has handled this nightmare. 

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5:00 Steven Hassan is a mental health professional who has been helping people leave destructive cults since 1976 after he was deprogrammed from Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. He is the author of four books Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-Selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults, Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves, Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Thoughts & Beliefs, and  The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How The President Uses Mind Control. He is the founding director of the Freedom of Mind Resource Center, located outside Boston.

45:52 Professor Eric Segall is a Constitutional Law Scholar at Georgia State University. He has written 2 important books and numerous articles at the most respected outlets in the country. He is simply the best and I love him. Follow him on twitter

1:12:36 Michelangelo Signorile is one of the most important voices in politics and gay rights. Dude is bad ass and I respect the hell out of him.  He is an author, journalist and commentator, and the host of "The Michelangelo Signorile Show." Signorile has been profiled by CBS' "60 Minutes," and has appeared on "Today," "Good Morning America" and other shows. He has also appeared in many film and television documentaries, including Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick's 2009 documentary, "Outrage" which profiled his work. Listen to his daily show on siriusxm

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Andrew Ford is a reporter who works for the USA Today Network in New Jersey, a family of Gannett daily newspapers including the Asbury Park Press and The Record (Bergen County). In 2020, he began partnering with ProPublica as part of their Local Reporting Network.

We talked about his piece at Pro Publica titled "I Cover Cops as an Investigative Reporter. Here Are Five Ways You Can Start Holding Your Department Accountable."

He produced watchdog reporting that won national awards and prompted state policy changes

Ted Alexandro is one of the most respected comedians of our generation. In my opinions he is like the moral center of NYC Comedy and has been for over 15 years. We had a great conversation about how we have grown in to understanding racial injustice in America and how we are doing all we can to be in solidarity with black and brown folks across the country.

Ted recently put out a great special called "Stay At Home Comedian" which got a great write up from the NY Times and for which he donated all of the proceeds to 

He has a new special coming out this week that I hope you will get. Go to TedAlexandro.com for more and follow him on Twitter

Ted is also now on Patreon and I highly recommend subscribing to his channel. 

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