The World's Only Podcast: Recent Episodes
Ian Roberts and Joshua Silberman
Join commentators Ian Roberts and Josh Silberman as they discuss and debate the issues of the past month.
The final edition of the World’s Only Podcast is here to bring the top news as Ian and Silby give you their own unfiltered and congenial feedback. This episode the boys discuss the big stories from 2021 and say their goodbyes!
Be sure to read more about the topics Ian and Corey discussed:
- New York Businesses Ordered to Require Masks Indoors or Vaccine Proof
- Statista: • United States: war fatalities1775-2021 | Statista
- NewsGP: Australia surges past UK, Israel, US in vaccine rollout
- Reddit: Herman Cain award
- Joe Biden’s Big Squeeze
- David Shor Is Telling Democrats What They Don’t Want to Hear
- Democrats fall flat with ‘Latinx’ language
- Blue States, You’re the Problem
- BIPOC or POC? Equity or Equality? The Debate Over Language on the Left
- The Guardian: Capitol attack panel obtains PowerPoint that set out plan for Trump to stage coup | US Capitol attack | The Guardian
- NY Mag: Why Joe Biden's Popular Agenda Is So Unpopular
- NYT: Birds Aren't Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory. - The New York Times
- The smug style in American liberalism - 2016
- How Late-Night Comedy Fueled The Rise Of Trump
- YouTube: Justice League clip
- You can follow Silby on Twitter at @Silby_Says and Ian at @IRLibrarian.
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This special edition of the World’s Only Podcast is here to bring the top news as Ian Roberts and Joshua Silberman share omitted segments from the past year as the clock ticks down to midnight.
Be sure to read more about the topics Ian and Silby discussed:
- WaPo: Tribune newspapers sold
- Poynter analysis: Covid closed more than 70 newsrooms. And counting.
- The U.S. Birthrate Has Dropped Again. The Pandemic May Be Accelerating the Decline.
- Not All Women Want To Be Mothers: The Stigma That Surrounds Choosing Not To Have Children
- Stop Panicking—There Are a Lot of Positives to the Baby Bust
- CNN: Home prices are still going up almost everywhere across the US
- WSJ: If You Sell a House These Days, the Buyer Might Be a Pension Fund
- US News: We Need a Building Boom to Avoid a Housing Bubble | Cities
- As Lumber Prices Fall, the Threat of Inflation Loses Its Bite
- Economist: Travel chaos will last well beyond summer
- Will travelers trash or treasure the planet after the pandemic?
- The pandemic has hurt corporate jets less than commercial ones
- Flight Attendants’ Hellish Summer: ‘I Don’t Even Feel Like a Human’
You can follow Silby on Twitter at @Silby_Says and Ian at @IRLibrarian.
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The December 2021 edition of the World’s Only Podcast is here to bring the top news as Ian and Silby give you their own unfiltered and congenial feedback. This episode the boys discuss inflation, recent court cases, the Spotted Lantern Fly, troubles at Facebook, and Fatherhood. That’s right, all five topics!
Be sure to read more about the topics Ian and Corey discussed:
- U.S. consumer prices jump 6.2% in October, the biggest inflation surge in more than 30 years
- History Says Don’t Panic About Inflation
- The White House Says Its Plans Will Slow Inflation. The Big Question Is: When?
- Inflation causing financial strain for nearly half of U.S. households, poll finds
- CNBC: Consumer price index October: Biggest inflation surge in more than 30 years
- NYT: Biden Says Spending Bill Will Slow Inflation. But When?
- WaPo: Opinion | Inflation myths have reached fan-fiction proportions
- ‘He could lose it’: Legal experts see prosecutorial missteps in Rittenhouse trial
- Kyle Rittenhouse trial: Witness tells court prosecutors pressured him to change his police statement
- A Prosecutor’s Winning Strategy in the Ahmaud Arbery Case - The New York Times
- WaPo: Kyle Rittenhouse acquitted on all counts in polarizing Kenosha
- NPR: 3 white men are found guilty of murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery
- Wisconsin Legislature: 941.30
- These 13 N.J counties are under spotted lanternfly quarantine. What you need to know
- NJ Dept of Agriculture: Spotted Lanternfly
- PA Dept of Agriculture - Alert on Spotted Lanternfly
- WaPo: The spotted laternfly may soon arrive in DC, Maryland and Virginia
- Philly Voice: USDA scientists import wasps from China to battle the spotted lanternfly invasion
- Chesapeake Bay Magazine: Invasive Spotted Lanternfly Widens Range in Md.'s Bay Watershed
- National Park Service: Brood X Periodical Cicadas FAQ (US National Park Service)
- WaPo: The Facebook Papers, explained
- The Guardian: She opens the app and gets bombarded’: parents on Instagram, teens and eating disorders
- Forbes: Facebook Ordered To Disclose Evidence In The Myanmar Genocide Case
- NYT: A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military (Published 2018)
- NYT: Facebook Outage Caused by a Cascade of Errors, It Says
- Business Insider: Whistleblower Says Lawmakers Shouldn't Break up Facebook
- You can follow Silby on Twitter at @Silby_Says and Ian at @IRLibrarian.
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The November 2021 edition of the World’s Only Podcast is here to bring the top news as Ian and guest host Corey Parker give you their own unfiltered and congenial feedback. This episode the boys discuss supply chain shortages, the 1/6 commission, the UN climate change conference, and Dave Chapelle on Netflix.
Be sure to read more about the topics Ian and Corey discussed:
- CNBC: Supply chain chaos is already hitting global growth. And it's about to get worse
- Guardian: America faces supply-chain disruption and shortages. Here’s why | Matt Stoller
- The New Yorker: The Supply-Chain Mystery
- CNBC: Chip shortage continues to wreak havoc on VW and Stellantis
- Forbes: PS5 And Xbox Series X Shortages Will Continue Through 2023, Most Likely
- CNET: PS5 shortage might be over as Sony secures more chips.
- NPR: With the holidays ahead, supply chain issues will get worse before they get better
- AP: House votes to hold Trump ally Steve Bannon in contempt
- Yahoo: Condoleezza Rice Says Lawmakers Should 'Move on' From Jan. 6 Riot
- Rolling Stone: Two Jan. 6 Planners Cooperate With Committee, Name MAGA Congress Members
- NPR: What is the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow all about?
- NYT: Manchin Pushes for More Climate Cuts from the Budget Bill
- Slate: Joe Manchin, who's made $4.5 million from coal, is shooting down our climate hopes.
- US News and World Report: 4 Key Issues to Watch at World Climate Summit | Best Countries
- NYT: Supreme Court to Hear Case on E.P.A.’s Power to Limit Carbon Emissions
- Biden joins global push to cut climate-warming methane emissions
- Variety: ‘I Screwed Up’: Netflix’s Ted Sarandos Addresses Dave Chappelle Fallout
- WaPo: How Dave Chappelle's comedy special controversy put Netflix on blast
- The Verge: Netflix employees at the heart of the Dave Chappelle controversy file charges against the company
- Yahoo: Netflix protesters furious over Chapelle special attack man with 'We like Dave' sign
- Stitcher: The Distraction: A Defector Podcast - Please Don't Tell Anybody How I Live (with Christian Finnegan) on Stitcher
- George Carlin interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8yV8xUorQ8
- You can follow Silby on Twitter at @Silby_Says and Ian at @IRLibrarian.
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The September 2021 edition of the World’s Only Podcast is here to bring the top news as Ian and Silby give you their own unfiltered and congenial feedback. This episode the boys discuss Afghanistan, the California Recall, OnlyFans, and Trigger Warnings on video games.
Be sure to read more about the topics Ian and Silby discussed:
- Washington Monthly: Afghanistan meant Nothing
- The US War in Afghanistan
- Biden administration scrambled as its orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan unraveled
- This Is How the US's Afghanistan Exit Plan Unraveled
- How Will China Deal With the Taliban?
- Progressive lawmakers, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, have largely stayed quiet as Afghanistan descends into chaos
- The Week the Left Stopped Caring About Human Rights
- Let’s Not Pretend That the Way We Withdrew From Afghanistan Was the Problem
- Intelligence Warned of Afghan Military Collapse, Despite Biden’s Assurances
- The clash within a civilization
- Why the Arab world has an identity crisis
- What You Need to Know About the California Recall, Explained
- NYT: How Did Larry Elder Become a Front-Runner in California’s Governor Race?
- WaPo: Analysis | Embattled California Gov. Newsom, facing recall election, says it’s time for Democrats to wake up
- 538: Latest Polls Of The California Recall Election
- CNBC: YouTube star Kevin Paffrath is Democratic leader in California recall
- Opinion: Gavin Newsom is in trouble. Here’s why
- Big donors helping Newsom fight California recall also have a big wish list in Sacrament
- Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional
- California leaving: State population declines for first time
- NYT: OnlyFans Says It Is Banning Sexually Explicit Content
- CNN: OnlyFans says it will ban sexually explicit content
- Tech Crunch: OnlyFans bans explicit content
- OnlyFans to prohibit sexually explicit content beginning in October
- OnlyFans won't ban porn after all
- BBC: OnlyFans: How it handles illegal sex videos
- The Information: The Numbers Behind The OnlyFans Flip-Flop; Clubhouse Teases a Creator Marketplace
- The Real Reasons Why OnlyFans Is Banning Porn
- OnlyFans CEO on why it banned adult content: ‘the short answer is banks’
- The Children of Pornhub
- The children selling explicit videos on OnlyFans
- The Daily Beast: The Shady Evangelical Group With Trump Ties Waging War on Pornhub
- Time: Why Did OnlyFans Reverse Its Ban on Sexual Content?
- The Onion: OnlyFans CEO Admits Decision To Ban Pornography Was Made In Shame-Filled Moment After Orgasm
- The Guardian: Boyfriend Dungeon review – a video game where you can date your weapons
- Pink News: Controversial dating sim Boyfriend Dungeon given new content warning over stalking plot
- The Mary Sue: Indie Game Boyfriend Dungeon's Content Warning Discourse
- Inverse.com: 'Boyfriend Dungeon' creator responds to content warning controversy
- Are Trigger Warnings Actually Helpful? - Scientific American Blog Network
- The Performative Antiracism of Black Students at the U. of Wisconsin
- Trigger warnings appear to have little impact on emotional responses or learning
- Family Guy - Brah gets fired
- https://www.doesthedogdie.com/
You can follow Silby on Twitter at @Silby_Says and Ian at @IRLibrarian.
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The August 2021 edition of the World’s Only Podcast is here to bring the top news as Ian and guest host Corey Parker give you their own unfiltered and congenial feedback. This episode the boys discuss the Delta Variant, Bill Cosby, Restaurant Staffing, Gun Violence, and the Olympics (That’s right, all five segments!)
Be sure to read more about the topics Ian and Corey discussed:
- WaPo: Covid case, death and hospitalization rates on the rise again for the unvaccinated - Washington Post
- WaPo: Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri and other states report double-digit growth in vaccinations over two weeks.
- Newsweek: US States With High COVID Cases Seeing Vaccination Rate Increase: White House
- CNN: Alabama GOP governor says 'start blaming the unvaccinated folks' for rise in Covid cases
- NY Mag: Universal Face-Mask Mandates Are Back. Here’s What to Know.
- NYT: Italy to Require Proof of Vaccination or Negative Test for Social Activities
- Bill Cosby Is Out of Prison but He’s Not Welcome in Hollywood: ‘He Is Toxic’
- LA Times: Column: Bill Cosby is out of prison. What does that mean for his dozens of accusers?
- LA Times: Pennsylvania court was right to overturn Cosby's conviction
- CNN: Restaurants have a new challenge: Finding workers
- Newsweek: 'We All Quit': Restaurant Signs Claiming Staff Walking Out Are Popping Up Across US
- Business Insider: Restaurant Workers Are Quitting at Record Rates
- CNN: Restaurant workers say they're overworked and stressed out. Here's why
- Time: Restaurant Owners and Workers Struggle Amid Labor Shortage | Time
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: 35-1011 Chefs and Head Cooks
- AP: Garland vows crackdown on gun trafficking as violence surges
- Baltimore Magazine: The Iron Pipeline: Nearly Two-Thirds of Baltimore's Guns Come from Out of State
- CBS: Justice Department rolls out 5 firearms trafficking strike forces to tackle gun violence
- Fox5 News: Alexandria Police address rising weapons crimes in Old Town
- Garland vows crackdown on gun trafficking as violence surges
- Deliberate misrepresentation of the intent of the Second Amendment by gun-rights advocates
- Database of US gun violence
- DC v. Heller decision
- CBS: Tokyo reports record number of new COVID-19 cases as Olympics continue
- CNBC: Covid cluster at hotel hosting Olympic athletes raises concerns as Tokyo cases surge
- New Yorker: Japan's Olympic-Sized Problem
- Quartz: Rio Olympics 2016: Rio's favela residents say they won't benefit from the Olympics
- CNN: 'I'm really struggling to exercise still': Olympic athletes battle long Covid
- AP: Why are Olympics going on despite public, medical warnings?
- AP: EXPLAINER: Why Japan has been slow to roll out vaccinations
- How Simone Biles saved herself — and her teammates — at the Olympics
You can follow Corey on Twitter at @BeerNerdtastic and Ian at @IRLibrarian.
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This month’s Fifth Segment is included in the episode, enjoy!
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