Glissades: Foreign Penetration of Silicon Valley (with Keri Kukral)

10/01/21 • 73 min

Greg Olear talks to Keri Kukral of Raw Science TV about the Epstein connections to science and tech, foreign money in Silicon Valley, what to do about Facebook, privacy vs. security, and the pros and cons of crypto. Plus: CPAC in Budapest (with apologies to George Ezra). Raw Science TV: https://www.rawscience.tv/ https://www.rawsciencefilmfestival.com/ Follow Keri on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kerikukral Keri gets answers: https://www.facebook.com/616244537/posts/10158410073529538/?d=n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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My Head's in Mississippi (with Donna Ladd)

Mississippi Free Press has done some of the most impactful local journalism in the country. Greg Olear talks to Donna Ladd, co-founder of the Jackson Free Press and executive director and editor of MFP, about her remarkable origin story, racism in the Deep South vs. racism in the North, systemic sexism, the misogyny of the media, a new approach to journalism, Tate Reeves and the political landscape in Jackson, and the complexities of the Magnolia State. Plus: a web hosting company for monsters, by monsters.

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Donna’s piece about her mother, from The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/dec/20/despite-my-mamas-secret-shame-she-was-the-smartest-person-i-knew

Donna on media misogyny, in DAME Magazine:

https://www.damemagazine.com/2019/11/13/the-media-is-misogynistic-by-design/

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Spilling the Beans: The Allison Gill Interview

She’s the host of “Mueller, She Wrote” and “The Daily Beans,” two of the country’s most popular political podcasts. But who is AG? Allison Gill talks to Greg Olear about her origin story: growing up in Ohio and Arizona, studying nuclear submarine propulsion in the U.S. Navy, slinging drinks while doing stand-up and playing in a band, and working for the Department of Veterans Affairs until being “Mulvaneyed” by the Former Guy. Plus: an offshore that’s stateside.

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