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Nikki Haley says that aliens were the cause of the civil war and Lauren Boebert annouces she'll be running for Congress in a house district on the planet Mars... since she stands no chance on Earth.
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Beowulf talks about the importance of getting rest in the time anomaly between Christmas and New Years where everything seems to slow down; We also talk a study conducted on homeless populations and how one of the most effective ways to help the homeless is giving them money. (...Shocker?)
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Beowulf speaks with Steven Ujifusa, author of "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" about the business magnates that made immigration from Central and Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries possible.
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Host of Around The Political World, John Rothmann, joins Beowulf to discuss Donald Trump's insane Christmas massage and othe political news of the day.
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Beowulf speaks with Cenk Uygur, author of Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It about the momentum of the progressive movement, the history of progressive politics, how progressives will take over the country, and how to fight facism.
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How rich were Kevin's parent's in "Home Alone"? Pretty darn rich. We discuss. Check out this NYT story: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/movies/home-alone-mccallisters-wealth.html
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We read the healthcare horror story of a chronically ill Penn State student, denied by UnitedHealthcare for treatment, and the lies and deception that the company put him through. Read the full ProPublica article, "UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings." written by David Armstrong, Patrick Rucker and Maya Miller here: https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis
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Susanne Posel joins us for a discussion about the removal of Trump from the Colorado ballot, "Home Alone," and much more.
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Robert Jay Lifton, author of Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic, joins us to discuss historical tragedies from Hiroshima to COVID and how humanity bounces back and learns from these times.
(Note: This is a reupload of an episode originally aired 9/8/23)
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Republicans want to abolish no-fault divorce and "publically shame" those deemed at-fault for divorces.
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