APM Weekly July 15 -19

Marketplace (PM)

  • Kai talks to Rogé Karma, staff writer at The Atlantic, about his story looking at what interest rates do in the economy.
  • We may be slightly biased here, but part of the reason audio is clearly the best medium to work in…the sound of the human voice can tell you so much more about a person than just words. A pregnant pause here, some nervous laughter there, maybe a resigned sigh or two…all breadcrumbs for a deeper understanding of how someone is feeling. Now obviously guessing someone’s emotions from how they sound is an imperfect science at best. But there’s some folks in the artificial intelligence world trying to make it more perfect…Marketplace’s Matt Levin takes us on a tour of “emotionally intelligent” AI.

UPS series

  • July 15: UPS’ newest warehouse, called Velocity, is not your typical ant farm of workers on forklifts and pushing handcarts. This facility has more robots than humans – Roomba-like gadgets that zip around the space. It’s one aspect of a big system that allows the company to achieve its same day delivery service. In part one of this two-part series, senior reporter Kristin Schwab visits the warehouse UPS will model all of its future warehouses after and get a detailed look at how you order something at 10 pm and it arrives at your doorstep the next day.
  • July 16: Just 15 minutes away from Velocity is the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. Fun fact: It’s only called an international airport because of UPS. The company occupies a bigger portion of the airport than commercial carriers do. UPS’ section is called Worldport. And it’s so extensive that it has its own pilot training facility, mechanics, “hotel” for workers, food trucks and shuttle service. More than 300 UPS planes take off here every night. Senior reporter Kristin Schwab visits the airport in the middle of the night, at the height of its activity, to watch packages get puzzle-piece loaded onto a 747.

Marketplace Morning Report

  • Marketplace Morning Report has the story of one individual pursuing a Limited Liability Company (LLC) to find work until his visa arrives.

Marketplace Tech

  • Monday July 15: Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Lauren Feiner, senior policy reporter with The Verge, about SCOTUS’ recent NetChoice court decision.

The Daily

Next week for the RNC, we are expecting:

A look at the VP pick once that choice is announced. That announcement is expected over the weekend so we are aiming to turn that around for Monday.

We plan to air another installment of our Trump 2.0 series with Charlie Savage, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. In this second installment, we will look at Trump’s rhetoric as it has evolved in recent years.

We’ll conclude the week with a look back at the convention.

On Point

  • Monday, July 15: Donald Trump demands loyalty from the Republican Party and gets it. Most Democratic lawmakers are now acting much the same way, publicly professing loyalty to Joe Biden, at any cost. We explore how loyalty politics has come to dominate American political discourse and decision making.
  • Tuesday, July 16: Dr. Anthony Fauci became one of the most recognized public faces of the COVID19 crisis as public health officials struggled to contain the pandemic amid political polarization. His advice, offered from a White House podium, led to death threats. Dr. Fauci speaks with Meghna about the lessons learned from that experience and his long career in public health. (Postponed from last week)
  • Thursday, July 18: The American West has been experiencing a severe heat wave that has 60 million people under heat alerts from the National Weather Service. Hospitals are overwhelmed and power grids are failing. Federal help is not available to help because FEMA doesn’t classify extreme heat as a natural disaster. We hear about efforts underway to change that.

On Point’s Week of Wonder: July 22 – 26, 2024

On Point heard from many enthusiastic listeners last year about how much they enjoyed and appreciated the Week of Wonder in which they let awe inspire us. It seemed to be perfect summer break listening…so they’re doing it again. On July 22-26, join Host Meghna Chakrabarti to explore what captivates our mind, illuminates our humanity and both delights and confounds us. It might just be the audio tonic for our times.

Digital assets for the series are available to download here.

The Splendid Table

July 19 – New episode

We are channeling summer in France this week with Steve Hoffman author of the memoir of A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France and then we turn to Rebekah Peppler and her new book Le Sud, Recipes from Provence-Alpes-Côte-D’Azur.

Classical

Performance Today

  • July 15: Stewart Goodyear performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, from Ordway Hall in Sanit Paul, MN
  • July 16: Naomi Woo conducts The Orchestra Now in a performance of Gabriela Lena Frank’s Elegia Andina, from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
  • July 17: Sharon Isbin performs Vivaldi’s Guitar Concerto with the Pacifica Quartet at the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, CO
  • July 18: Imani Winds perform Valerie Coleman’s “Rubispheres” from the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center in Athens, GA
  • July 19: Cellist Sterling Elliott joins the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, conducted by Kwame Ryan from the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte, NC

Classical 24

Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT

  • Summer Scenery: Carlos Simon’s “Warmth from Other Suns,” Peteris Vasks’s “Summer Dances,” Algirdas Martinaitis’s “Birds of Eden,” and other music about sunlight and nature.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

  • July 18: Franz Schubert’s epic Quintet in C from a March 2024 concert at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen.
  • July 20: Igor Stravinsky’s suite from his ballet “The Firebird,” in concert from February. The Brussels Philharmonic left the city to perform this concert at St. Elisabeth Church in Kortrijk, Belgium.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

  • Stormy Weather: It’s been a summer of extreme weather so far, and we’ll explore classical music about the storms and tempests, including the thunderstorm from Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, Johann Strauss Jr.’s Thunder and Lightning Polka, “Cloudburst” from Ferde Grofe’s Grand Canyon Suite, and more.

APM Presents special of the week

How Does the Russian Propaganda Machine Work? Are There Lessons for the United States?

Air Window: Now – July 31, 2024

When Ukrainian soldiers liberated the town of Bucha, Ukraine in March, 2022, news reports showed scenes of bodies lying in the streets. Human Rights Watch documented cases of summary executions. But on Russian state television, the news was presented as “fake,” a staged event. Objective reporting about the war in Ukraine is now against the law in Russia and journalists can’t even use the word “war” in their stories. But it wasn’t always like this. Two veteran Russian journalists, who’ve experienced the changes firsthand, explain what’s happened and how “fake news” has helped solidify authoritarian rule in Russia.

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