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- 17: Guvmint Checks A’comin’, Apple Has Some New Floss, and Humans Need Not Apply
This is a news podcast. And in this news podcast’s episode for today, we talk about what Trump’s brilliant plan to save the economy of America is, and its not terrible; Joe Biden is rollin through these primaries like Snoop in a Cadillac; Facebook tries to do right, and still does wrong, while trying to do right again; and Humans mess things up when we overburden the earth, the proof is in Venice.
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- Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to address the coronavirus pandemic - TechCrunch
- White House coronavirus plan aims to send $2,000 to many Americans, includes $300 billion for small businesses - The Washington Post
- Primary Election Results: Florida, Illinois and Arizona - The New York Times
- Apple's brand new iPad Pro has LiDAR and a trackpad - Six Colors
- Facebook wrongly blocked some links, including coronavirus info - TechCrunch
- Venice's canal water looks clearer as coronavirus keeps visitors away | CNN Travel
- Coronavirus lockdown eases pollution, Venice canal runs clear - Globalnews.ca
10 min - 16: Elon Musk Does Not Believe, TikTok Don’t Like Ugly and Some Hope and Positivity
This is an episodes where I give another extremely informative update on the virus that shall not be named; Elon Musk and Adidas CEO, Kasper Rorsted both show they’re lack of empathy then find out they have to pretend; Tom friggin’ Brady leaves the only team he’s ever know to an uncertain future, plus other NFL news; TikTok reminds me why I never signed up for their stupid app to begin with; I hope this last story brings some hope from science, and peanuts.
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- Coronavirus: Wuhan doctors celebrate closure of last temporary hospital after dramatic fall in cases in China - The Independent
- Cash Handouts Are Gaining Support in Congress as Best Virus Fix - Bloomberg
- White House Wants to Send Coronavirus Stimulus Checks Soon - Bloomberg
- Musk tells Fremont Tesla workers they can stay home as plant remains open - Los Angeles Times
- Adidas closes stores after reports of CEO saying otherwise - Business Insider
- Tom Brady leaving Patriots to continue NFL career elsewhere, quarterback says - The Washington Post
- The 7 biggest changes in the NFL’s new collective bargaining agreement - SBNation.com
- Offseason activities suspended "indefinitely" by NFL - ProFootballTalk
- TikTok encouraged moderators to suppress content from those deemed ugly, poor, or overweight
- FDA approves 1st drug for children with peanut allergies - TODAY
- 10 Free Services to Use for At-Home Workouts During Coronavirus - Men’s Health
11 min - 15: All the COVID News, Another Debate, And NO, 5G Doesnt Do That
Today’s show covers everything COVID related that happened over the weekend, and today, and while you were asleep; two old white guys argued with each other on television and almost no one cared because of lockdown fear; Israel has a lot more than an infection to be concerned about; Google and Trump go back and forth and the world sits back and wonder’s 'why the lies?'; and then then the tinfoil crowd doesn’t know how to tell the truth from fiction so they just keep lying about 5G and the virus.
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- CDC recommends no events of more than 50 people for next eight weeks | TheHill
- New York City, The Largest School District In The Country, To Close Its Schools | HuffPost
- Puerto Rico citizens on 24-7 LOCKDOWN starting today – PR informa
- What Does ‘Social Distancing’ Mean? - The Atlantic
- Police Use Drones to Keep People Home During COVID-19 Outbreak
- The Biden-Sanders Debate and the Virtual End of the 2020 Democratic Primary - The New Yorker
- Fed takes emergency steps to slash rates and ease bank rules
- Federal Reserve cuts rates to zero and launches massive $700 billion quantitative easing program
- Netanyahu rival Gantz chosen to form new Israeli government - ABC News
- White House teams up with Google to build coronavirus screening site - TechCrunch
- Trump says Google CEO Sundar Pichai called to apologize | TechCrunch
- These claims about the new coronavirus and 5G are unfounded - Full Fact
- No, 5G Does Not Cause Coronavirus - HowTo Geek
- Trump’s Google testing announcement mixed up several real projects - The Verge
12 min - 14: The FED Made It Rain, Will John Oliver Pause Your Student Loans, and Princess Tried to Slip It In
On today’s installment of Top 5, I try to help explain why the FED dropped so much money on the floor; The US Military plays no games, shun; Your end of the week VID updates: faster tests approved but you still can’t get them and Apple finally does something about WWDC; Princess Cruises really thought they could slide this info and walk out the room; and Treasury Secretary by day/HBO Host late night Sundays teases us with student loan forgiveness–for like a couple months–maybe–we’ll see...
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- Why did the Federal Reserve inject half a trillion dollars into the financial system? - NBC News
- Does the Federal Reserve or the Treasury Print Money? - The Balance
- US conducts airstrikes against multiple Iranian-backed militia sites in Iraq - CNNPolitics
- New Coronavirus Test 10 Times Faster Is FDA Approved - Bloomberg
- Princess Cruises, hobbled by the coronavirus, admits data breach - TechCrunch
- Mnuchin may suspend student loan repayments amid coronavirus outbreak - CNBC
- US Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro Apologizes to USWNT for Language in Filing - Bleacher Report
- Carlos Cordeiro Resigns as US Soccer President After USWNT Protest - Bleacher Report
8 min - 13: All of 2020 is Cancelled Until Further Notice, US Women’s Soccer Goes After Their Gold, and TikTok Goes See-Through
This is the episode where we find out everything is cancelled, don’t bother leaving the house; US Women’s Soccer is literally fighting sexist pigs, TikTok swears it’s going to show you all the goods under the table, Don’t touch your damn face; and if you can make it this long breaking the law, you get an award.
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- USWNT Equal Pay Lawsuit: US Soccer Argues Women Less Skilled Than Men
- NBA suspends season until further notice after player tests positive for the coronavirus - ESPN
- Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson Test Positive for Coronavirus - Entertainment Tonight
- Trump says he's suspending travel from Europe to US, though citizens and others are exempt - CNN
- A driver was pulled over with expired 1997 license plate tags. He says he's been busy - CNN
- Carnival’s Princess Cruises to shut down for two months due to coronavirus - The Verge
- TikTok steps up transparency efforts after privacy concerns in United States - Reuters
- How to Stop Touching Your Face - Likehacker
10 min - 12: Joe Wins on Pretty Sweet Tuesday, Harvey Gets to Prison and Billie Says Watch Your Mouf Not My Body
This is the one where Biden wins yet again but Bernie’s like, son – I’m not done; Harvey “the pervvy rapist” Weinstein gets 23 big ones in the clink; Airlines are losing big time, so they’re finally cleaning the planes; The UK decides to tax that ass on American social media & internet companies; and Billie Eilish switches up her image while succinctly saying, “Don’t watch me, watch TV.”
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Links:
- March 10 Primary Election Results 2020 - New York Magazine
- Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison - Rolling Stone
- Coronavirus concerns empty planes, leaving airline industry reeling - NBC News | TODAY
- The WHO just declared the coronavirus a pandemic. Here’s what that means. - Vox
- UK announces 2% digital services tax on Facebook, Google and Amazon - Sky News
- Digital Services Tax - GOV.UK
- Billie Eilish Takes Off Shirt, Protests Body Shaming With Spoken Word - Daily Beast
9 min - 11: More Market Swings, Toilet Paper Gold And Dolly Tries to Go Wild at 75!
In this one you put the volume up to hear me over the loud ass airplane noise and we find out that: there are a lot of COVID updates daily, but I’m only give you the important and or funny stuff; The stock market swings like a medieval guillotine amid a multitude of news today; Human behavior makes us buy weird stuff when we’re scared; Today’s another big Election Day, and they both need to make it count; Dolly shows us she still got it, even if you don’t wanna see it.
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- Why toilet paper has become the latest coronavirus panic buy - CNN
- Trump has not been tested for coronavirus - CBS News
- President teases stimulus package to boost a US economy hit by COVID-19 fears - TechCrunch
- Dolly Parton Wants to Recreate Playboy Cover for 75th Birthday - Men’s Health
- Trump Floats Economic Stimulus in Response to Coronavirus - The New York Times
- Number of Congressional Lawmakers in Self-Quarantine Due to Coronavirus Climbs to Six - WSJ
- Six States Vote Tuesday In The 2020 Primary: Here’s What To Watch - BuzzFeed NEWS
10 min - 10: Don't Look at your 401K, Don't Ever Take a Cruise, and Don't Panic
In this one, we talk about why the hell the stock market is doing backflips on itself; I finally give some updates on the virus of the decade; Trump only has the best people, so he just keeps picking better replacements, that's all; Amazon finally shows its cards and they're all hundreds; Even if it was a mistake, it's the only mistake I've asked for.
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- Stock Market Today: Dow, S&P Live Updates - Bloomberg
- Here's why financial markets are tanking - CNBC
- Robinhood app down again - CNBC
- Coronavirus live updates: Grand Princess to dock; US death toll at 22 - USA Today
- Millions locked down in Italy as government announces sweeping quarantine - NBC News
- Trump replaces Mick Mulvaney with Mark Meadows as chief of staff - CNN
- Trump picks Mark Meadows to be new White House chief of staff - The Washington Post
- Tracking turnover in the Trump administration - Brookings
- Amazon launches business selling automated checkout to retailers - Reuters
- A malfunction causes red wine to flow from faucets in an Italian town | CNN Travel
11 min - 9: Facebook backtracks? Putin and Erdogan make heart bubbles, and Chile's still on fire.
In this one, we find out Facebook can sometimes make the right decision, but we still don’t understand why; Waymo is worth a lot less than we thought & we’re pretty sure Google knows it; Chile is still on fire, violent protests are becoming a way of life; Putin and Erdogan call a temporary truce while they count their dead soldiers, hopefully it doesn’t collapse again; Go to the movies and see a heart swelling story from Pixar. Onward opens up today.
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- Facebook decides to take down Trump 2020 campaign's 'census' ads - Reuters
- Waymo’s $30 Billion Valuation Shows The New Reality Of Automated Driving Is Sinking In
- Violence resurges in protest-racked Chile, nearly 300 arrested - Reuters
- Putin and Erdogan Agree to Syria Ceasefire As Violence Escalates – Rogue Rocket
- Onward Isn’t Pixar’s Best, But It Casts a Spellbinding Tale of Brotherly Love | GQ
- Onward | Official Trailer - YouTube
10 min - 8: Lizzie Dubs Says Peace Out, 'Bama Needs a New Roll of Tide by 6, and I'm Not Paying That Much For It
In this one, we find out that Liz Warren has bowed out to leave us with a couple old white farts, Anthony Levandowski owes Google some real fuckin cash, the Alabama governor has a serious decision to make by 6PM Eastern today, YouTube TV customers lose out big – if they care about the Yankees or NYCFC, and price gougers are some annoying f#@ks
Thursday Show Notes:Liz Warren dropped out. So it’s down to the old white guys in the room, Bernie and Biden.
An Alabama Prisoner is Set to Die
Levandowski ordered to pay 179M and immediately filed for bankruptcy
Otto Purchased for 220M, not 680MYES Network off YouTube TV
$190 sanitizer? As we say in the hood, Don’t get got out there!
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