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Dec 13, 2024 • 31min
America This Week, Dec. 13, 2024: "Assassination Tales and Rubber Elephants"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe suspect in the United Health CEO murder becomes a "folk hero" through preposterous means. Also, "The Elephant" by Slawomir Mrozek
Dec 8, 2024 • 3min
Listen to This Article - Pardon Me, But This Is Bullshit
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsJoe Biden or whoever is running the White House can absolve anyone they please, but Anthony Fauci needs to stand tall before the man. The world is owed answers
Dec 7, 2024 • 10min
Listen to This Article - Note on the FBI
Kash Patel will be the focus of scrutiny now, but the Bureau needs to look in the mirror. How J. Edgar Hoover's legacy was revived in the Trump yearsNarrated by Jared Moore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Dec 6, 2024 • 30min
America This Week, December 06, 2024: "The Immaculate Pardon"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA trial balloon floats presidential pardons no one asked for, no one knows anything about, and no one needs, but will be done anyway. Plus, the "Masque of the Red Death," by Edgar Allan Poe
Dec 6, 2024 • 3min
Listen to This Article - The Bell Finally Tolls for the FBI
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe reported nomination of Kash Patel means chickens are coming home to roost for the FBI, which needs to be destroyed as a political entityNarrated by Jared Moore
Dec 2, 2024 • 3min
Listen to This Article - On Good and Bad AI
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsOn the virtues of using machines instead of being used by them. Thumbing a nose at dystopia, as it recedes in time for a holidayNarrated by Jared Moore
Dec 2, 2024 • 3min
Listen to This Article - The Democrats' Dirty Tricks Playbook?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsDocuments just made public show how groups aligned with the Democratic Party hit a third party rival with an array of underhanded schemes that put Watergate tricksters to shameNarrated by Jared MooreArt by Daniel Medina
Nov 21, 2024 • 3min
Listen to This Article - Our Sixty Days of Nuclear Chicken Have Begun
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsExpectation of peace talks after Donald Trump's inauguration is pushing all sides of the Ukraine war to escalate, with British and American missiles adding fresh riskNarrated by Jared Moore
Nov 21, 2024 • 3min
Listen to This Article - It's Time to Redefine "Fringe"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsCritics of the rumored nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health need to check the election returns
Nov 19, 2024 • 13min
Listen to This Article - How America's Accurate Election Polls Were Covered Up
The Real Clear Politics National Average was removed by Wikipedia before the election and the New York Times denounced its failure to skew data. A solution to the "mystery" of crappy polling?Narrated by Jared Moore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
