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June 21, 2019 Fun Talk: Knocking Down Walls & Crushing Their Dreams
It’s the funnest and talkiest time of the week – that’s right, it’s Fun Talk! Today, Quinn & Brian chat about how a plant-based bun is different from any other bun, the pushback against big companies adopting plant-based meat products (like Burger King and Little Caesars offering Beyond meat), how perfection is the enemy of progress, Brian’s equal opportunity hate, interior design that eliminates echo, the gift that Brian gave to Quinn, when Quinn promptly lost the charger for said gift, Brian’s plans for a one man show, and albums we love.
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47 min
June 18, 2019 #71: Why Raising the Status of Girls Can Change Everything
In Episode 71, Quinn & Brian discuss: Why raising the status of girls can help change everything.

Our guest is Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, a Vice President at Drawdown, an author, a public speaker, and an expert in just about everything. She’s made a very specific list of all the ways we can and should be fighting climate change and the climate crisis. She even put the list in order for us – and you won’t believe what number six is!

So, this episode is pretty much an audio version of a Buzzfeed listicle, except it could literally change everything and save the planet. But you should still share it to Facebook like you would any other Buzzfeed list. That’d be swell.

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Trump’s Book Club:

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Dr. Katharine Wilkinson: https://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/3R5XF4WMZE0TV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_ws_2Gr8Ab6RS5WF3

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Learn more at https://www.drawdown.org

Read “Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming” http://www.drawdown.org/the-book

Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrKWilkinson

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrKWilkinson

Watch “How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming”: https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_wilkinson_how_empowering_women_and_girls_can_help_stop_global_warming

Mothers of Invention: https://www.mothersofinvention.online

Malala Fund: https://www.malala.org

Girls Opportunity Alliance: https://www.obama.org/girlsopportunityalliance

Marie Stopes International: https://mariestopes.org

Pathfinder International: https://www.pathfinder.org

Planned Parenthood: https://www.plannedparenthood.org

Solar Sister: https://solarsister.org

We Do: http://wedo.org

Root Capital: https://rootcapital.org

Room to Read: https://www.roomtoread.org

Camfed: https://camfed.org

Study Hall Educational Foundation: https://www.studyhallfoundation.org

Komera: https://komera.org/

Akilah Institute: https://www.akilahinstitute.org
1 hr 29 min
June 14, 2019 Fun Talk: I’m Scared of the Normal Things People Are Scared Of: Four Dudes Coming Coming at Me in My Sleep to Murder Me
This week Quinn and Brian double down on the funny business and get into some Fun Talk: great white sharks are in New York City, Brian’s fear of sharks and other totally rational things, Quinn’s middle name, digging through Ancestry.com, Quinn’s family tree, when Quinn was a dick, the weird dichotomy between Orson Scott Card’s beliefs and the messages of his books, imagining a world where Brian had to keep track of things, the many mistakes Brian made on the day of recording, Quinn spending some one-on-one time with his kid, needing bubblegum pop, and a creepy voice message.
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Peep the view from Quinn’s vacation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=12D3qQXA7w0d7AyDlSzskjtLm-btmRUSt
“A great white shark was spotted in Long Island Sound for the first time ever, researchers say”: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/20/great-white-shark-long-island-sound-first-time/3747970002/
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40 min
June 11, 2019 #70: Who’s Fixing the People Fixing Our Planet?
In Episode 70, Quinn & Brian discuss: When things are broken, when the people who are working on those things are also broken, and why we need to help them. Our guest is Nikki Silvestri, the founder and CEO of Soil and Shadow, a project development firm designing economic and environmental strategies with human left in.

As the Co-Founder of Live Real and former Executive Director of People's Grocery and Green for All, Nikki has built and strengthened social equity for underrepresented populations in food systems, social services, public health, climate solutions, and economic development. She is a nationally recognized thought leader and general good doer, including being named as one of The Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans and receiving ELLE Magazine's "Gold" Award and OxFam America's "Act Local, Think Global" Award.

We don’t hesitate or feel like we’re overselling things when we say that what Nikki has to say is something that most people need to hear, and this could be a truly transformative message if it falls on the right ears. Brian said it, Quinn took credit for it, and now we hope you take it to heart.

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Trump’s Book Club: I Hate You - Don't Leave Me by Hal Straus and Jerold Jay Kreisman: https://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/3R5XF4WMZE0TV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_ws_2Gr8Ab6RS5WF3

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1 hr 29 min
June 07, 2019 Fun Talk: Whatever You’re Doing, It’s Not Working & It’s Horrendous
It’s that time of the week again, and you know what that means: two white guys talking on a podcast!
Just for funsies, Quinn and Brian chat about not drinking a beer, Brian horrifying Quinn because he’s picking kale out of his teeth, recording woes, informal rage, how Quinn uses his read later services, Brian’s new mic stand, the new massage place from the woman who created Dry Bar, their Boy Scout experiences, and our neighbor Bill Nye swearing.
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42 min
June 04, 2019 #69: Rebuilding Los Angeles & L.A.’s Green New Deal
In Episode 69, Quinn & Brian discuss: Rebuilding Los Angeles and L.A.’s Green New Deal.

Our guest is Jeanalee Obergfell, who works just down the street from Important, Not Important HQ as a City Planning Associate for Los Angeles. When it comes to making L.A. greener and more equitable, you know Jeanalee is either helping someone’s cause or leading the charge.

Really, if the Game of Thrones were the game of creating more equitable housing and transportation options in a less hot and more breathable city (as opposed to literally burning all of the infrastructure and citizens, like some people), Jeanalee would be sitting on the Iron Throne. But, will real life end better than the show? For our sake, we sure hope so.

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Trump’s Book Club:

Laudato Si’—On Care For Our Common Home by Pope Francis: https://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/3R5XF4WMZE0TV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_ws_2Gr8Ab6RS5WF3

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L.A.’s Green New Deal: http://plan.lamayor.org/

Food Forward: https://foodforward.org/

SEE-LA: https://seela.org/

S T A N D - L.A.: https://www.stand.la/

Los Angeles Food Policy Council: https://www.goodfoodla.org

League of Conservation Voters: http://lalcv.org/

Sierra Club: https://angeles.sierraclub.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanalee-obergfell/

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1 hr 12 min
May 31, 2019 Fun Talk: What’s Wrong With White Guys
In this week’s Fun Talk, Quinn & Brian get right down to business and chat about Brian’s money management, where they used to get coffee, Quinn’s barista hacks, why Quinn is lying to his kids about these stupid gluten-free waffles, the multi-talented music maker Tim Blane, talking to fewer white guys, baby boomers ruining the whole thing, Millennials not cheating on their spouses as much, the five(ish) movies we like most, the lack of good role models in Game of Thrones, and some sportsball.
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Listen to Tim Blaine’s music: https://soundcloud.com/timblane/magnetic
John Williams and Steven Spielberg work out the E.T. Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDC_fppZ1Kg
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36 min
May 28, 2019 #68: Let’s Send Our Homework into Space
In Episode 68, Quinn & Brian discuss: Sending our homework to space.

Our guest is Michelle Lucas, an actual rocket scientist and the founder of Higher Orbits. Michelle spent 10 years at NASA, where part of her role involved teaching astronauts how to... you know, do space stuff. And now, at Higher Orbits, she’s teaching young people who aren’t astronauts yet, but might be, some day, because of her!

Now, this isn’t an episode about how to get away with not doing your homework. On the contrary, this is an episode that might actually make a kid want to do their homework – because, this time, an actual astronaut in space might help them finish it.

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Trump’s Book Club:

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe: https://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/3R5XF4WMZE0TV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_ws_2Gr8Ab6RS5WF3

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Learn more at https://higherorbits.org

Donate: https://higherorbits.org/donate/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/spacechelle

Failure Must Be An Option | Michelle Lucas | TEDxFargo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K_uEYVNHAc

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1 hr 14 min
May 27, 2019 Fun Talk: Introducing Nicole!
In today’s Extra Special Fun Talk, Quinn & Brian sit down and get to know Nicole Chase, our Technical Analyst, Secretarial Extraordinaire (TASE). She’s the newest employee over here at Important, Not Important HQ and we couldn’t be more excited to have her on the team! Well... she’s in Portland, but she’s still really helping everything run more smoothly here at the HQ.
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Trump’s Book Club:
Current Management in Child Neurology by Bernard L. Maria: https://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/3R5XF4WMZE0TV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_ws_2Gr8Ab6RS5WF3
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/cape_gurl
Watch Nicole in “Mortified”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YbLZ0qqPec&feature=youtu.be
The Good Place The Podcast: https://www.nbc.com/the-good-place/exclusives/tgp-podcast
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16 min
May 24, 2019 Fun Talk: #IDONTMIND Talking About Mental Health
Another Friday, another Fun Talk. So Quinn & Brian get loose(ish) and chat about just shutting the whole thing down, Getting Things Done (the concept and the book), Mental Health Month and the #IDONTMIND campaign, their disagreements about peanut butter, plus ones at weddings, other wedding do’s and dont’s (don’t have one, do alope, etc), and Brian’s coffee troubles.
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Getting Things Done by David Allen: https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280
#IDONTMIND: https://idontmind.com/
Thrive Market: https://thrivemarket.com/trial/welcome
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52 min

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The most important question in today's world of climate chaos, AI psychosis, and crumbling democracy is: what can I do? Your host, Quinn Emmett is completely unqualified to answer it, so he's calling the people that already are.