5/15/21

News

JC Penney

USS Roosevelt https://www.healthline.com/health-news/people-reinfected-with-covid-19-werent-infectious

Felicien Kabuga

mask wearing orders

Germany recession

Tigers on the loose

Topics

Last ep thoughts

Metaphorical Wine Pairing ("Space Oddity," "Ashes to Ashes," "Major Tom (I'm Coming Home)," Endurance, The Wanderers, Sally Ride)

“Two of Us”, On the Road, Away (TV)

5/7/21

News

new black holes

surveys

Disneyland

https://www.nytimes.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-shooting-georgia.html

record lows

unemployment rate

Amtrak https://www.amtrak.com/coronavirus

social distancing arrests

bankruptcy https://fashionunited.com/news/business/2020-fall-of-fashion-brands-retailers-and-series-of-chapter-11-bankruptcies/2020122837207

Topics

travel memories

interconnectedness

• https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/science/earth/study-links-syria-conflict-to-drought-caused-by-climate-change.html

• https://www.pnas.org/content/112/11/3241

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/11/how-does-climate-change-impact-conflict-world/

Butterfly effect

Metaphorical Wine Pairing (Fight Club, The Great Gatsby, Rules of Civility)

Tenet, Survivor, Outlander

4/24/21

Episode 50: things we learned/things we got wrong

News

Kim Jong-Un

DOD https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/

The COVID yo-yo

US Women's Soccer https://www.dw.com/en/us-womens-soccer-team-gets-partial-victory-on-equality/a-57175882

May Day rent strike

Armed protests

Canadian ban on assault rifles https://www.npr.org/2021/04/10/985514254/biden-wants-new-ban-on-assault-style-weapons-what-lessons-were-learned-from-the-

Topics

list of potential positive results of COVID

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7467397/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7498239/#:~:text=The%20global%20disruption%20caused%20by,parts%20of%20the%20world.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1871402120301776

book series with strong settings

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/12/31/city-guide-writers-pandemic-covid/

commuting

Metaphorical Wine Pairing (Los Angeles Plays Itself [documentary], "L.A." by Neil Young, Day of the Locust, "Isle of California" [mural])

X - "Los Angeles" Sunset Blvd, Escape from LA

4/24/21

Episode 49: things we learned/things we got wrong

News

U.S. poison control

COVID

ExxonMobil

Tornadoes

Immunity passports https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01451-0

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting-immunity-found-after-recovery-covid-19

Topics

pros and cons of working from home

"work" vs "home" morale and productivity

comfort food

comfort genres

Metaphorical Wine Pairing (Convenience Store Woman, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Pond, "She Is Beyond Good and Evil")

"Yellow Wallpaper" "Kiss the Book" Play it As it Lays

4/15/21

Episode 48 things we learned/things we got wrong 

News

COVID testing protocols

proms

Humboldt squid

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/17/820707276/deep-sea-squid-communicate-by-glowing-like-e-readers

hospitals overflowing

https://news.usni.org/2020/05/25/beyond-mercy-navys-covid-19-hospital-ship-missions-and-the-future-of-medicine-at-sea

Brett Crozier

Short Wave

Consider This

iPhone SE

Baseball

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/26/21339029/virtual-baseball-mlb-nba-fox-sports-coronavirus

Topics

Andrew:

tiny horses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory_of_the_United_States#:~:text=It%20covered%20the%20majority%20of,than%20600%20feet%20of%20water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_horse_breeds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_Heard_%27Round_the_World_(baseball)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX2_zx-eJhw

Metaphorical Wine Pairing (The Woman Who Died a Lot, "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Day of the Moon" Doctor Who episodes)

Sherlock “The Abominable Bride”, Simon & Garfunkel's “the Sound of Silence”, Forrest Gump

4/10/21

Episode 47: things we learned/things we got wrong

News

NASA plans to mine on the moon https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/03/moon-mining-contracts-named/

transit workers and COVID https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-mta-covid-transit-deaths-peter-petrassi-20210326-ol25evkc7nafvkfnvenps4fbyq-story.html

Thailand elephants

COVID disparities https://weta.org/watch/shows/pbs-newshour/covid-race-1594934110

app to help track COVID https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/03/covid-app-exposure-notification-apple-google.html

COVID and prison populations https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/us/covid-prisoners-vaccine.html

pollution and COVID https://www.lung.org/blog/covid-19-mortality-and-air-pollution

cytokine storms https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200417/cytokine-storms-may-be-fueling-some-covid-deaths

Topics

Zoom

procrastination

etc.

Metaphorical Wine Pairing (Blindness, No Exit, "Allegiance" ST:TNG episode)

“The Magnificent Ferengi” ST:DS9 | “The Adventures of Pete and Pete: Halloweenie” | “Dum Dum Boys”

3/27/21

Episode 46: things we learned/ things we got wrong

News

2020 Olympics

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/30/astrophysicist-gets-magnets-stuck-up-nose-while-inventing-coronavirus-device

vaccines

Ability to forecast weather took a hit due to lack of commercial flights https://www.govtech.com/question-of-the-day/How-is-COVID-19-affecting-the-accuracy-of-weather-forecasts.html

Zoom

Topics:

masks

control

bread

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent

Metaphorical Wine Pairing (Severance, The Regional Office Is Under Attack!, Bellwether)

Andrew: The Office, The Big Short, Office Space

3/27/21

Episode 45: things we learned/things we got wrong

News

CARES Act

air quality

MLB

N. Korea

Topics

food during stay at home

walking

words we spell wrong

Metaphorical Wine Pairing (The Fall (tv show), Native Son, Crime & Punishment and/or The Stranger)

Andrew’s: Pink Floyd, The Myth of Sisyphus, and Prosecutor Princess

3/21/21

Episode 44: things we learned/things we got wrong:

News

stay at home orders

oil demand

countries also in lockdown

tax deadline extended

evictions banned in L.A.

investigations of U.S. Senators selling of stocks with insider knowledge

health care open enrollment

Topics

what people are doing to stay connected/positive during "stay at home" orders

Zoom and video chat

plague/pandemic book list continued 

RadioLab - “Crispr” episode

Metaphorical Wine Pairing (Russian Doll, "Now Wait for this Week" (Alice Sola Kim), Groundhog Day, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle) 

"Now Wait for This Week": https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/now-wait-for-this-week-a-short-story-by-alice-sola-kim.html

You’ve Got Mail, Cast Away, & Joe vs the Volcano

3/13/21

Guests: Danny and Miles

News

COVID as pandemic

R. Kelly

DOW Jones https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart

European rover ExoMars

Rocket attacks in Iraq

COVID-19 closures

US Soccer Federation

Topics

Live during COVID - One year later

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/90871

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/coronavirus-pandemic-fake-animal-viral-social-media-posts

https://time.com/5851633/best-global-responses-covid-19/

Metaphorical Wine Pairing: “Wind Will Rove” vs “Station Eleven”

https://sarahpinsker.com/files/WindWillRove_Pinsker.pdf

Andrew’s Tri-Pairing: “The Iceman Cometh”, “Easy Street” film, and “Franny and Zooey”