Your week at a glance: August 22-28, 2022

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News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

Week of August 22

  • Kai talks to Linda Flannagan about her new book Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania are Ruining Kids’ Sports—and Why It Matters.
  • Earlier this year, as a couple of retailers announced they’d have to liquidate inventory, businesses’ bloated inventories emerged as a sign that a recession might be coming. A broader tendency to pull back on inventory acquisition was a drag on GDP. Three months later, Marketplace’s Justin Ho checks in to see what the inventory picture is telling us now.

Marketplace Tech

  • Except for Thursday, Kimberly Adams hosts all week.
  • Aug 22: Tech takes a look at a new text-to-image model called DALL-E—we talk to the creators of the tool, and a safe streets activist who uses it to create images of walkable, bikeable streets.
  • Aug 23: Kimberly Adams will be talking to actor and child literacy advocate LeVar Burton, about his partnership with Osmo, a tech tool that helps kids learn to read.
  • Aug 24: We focus on “dark patterns” a term coined by Harry Brignull, a U.K.-based user experience specialist and researcher of human-computer interactions. “Dark patterns,” or gently coercive design tactics that critics say are used to manipulate peoples’ digital behaviors.
  • Aug 25: Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Taylor Barkley, Technology and Innovation Director at the Center for Growth and Opportunity discusses the results of their latest poll on people’s sentiments towards Big Tech companies and the platforms/services they offer.
  • Aug 26: We’ll talk with several experts and one family about a video game called Mightier that’s designed to help kids who struggle with behavioral and other challenges. Medicaid now covers the cost of the video game as treatment.

On Point

  • Kimberly Atkins Stohr hosts this week. Meghna Chakrabarti is away.
  • Aug 22: Donald Trump’s supporters are unleashing a torrent of criticism of the FBI after agents executed a search warrant at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort. On Point asks how this criticism is affecting FBI officers and the work of the bureau. Guests include former FBI Deputy Director, Andrew McCabe, who was fired by President Trump just hours before his retirement.
  • Aug 23: Kimberly speaks with Senator Patrick Leahy about his new political memoir, The Road taken. Leahy, who was first elected to the senate in 1974, looks back across nine presidential administrations.

Arts and Culture

Time Machine from The Current

Aug 26 – 1963

  • The Time Machine takes a trip back to 1963 this time. We lost Patsy Cline in a plane crash. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan album was released, which launched his career into the stratosphere. The British invasion was just getting underway and The Beatles began to rule the charts. The Fab 4 weren’t the only Liverpool band to have a #1 hit in 1963. There was also Gerry and the Pacemakers. It was the year of Johnny Cash’s signature tune, Ring of Fire. Buck Owens had his 1st #1 song, one the Fab 4 would record two years later. The sound of young America was everywhere with big Motown hits from Martha and the Vandellas and others. Young men were rocking out in their garages with surf and garage rock hits from artists like The Trashmen & The Surfaris. Skeeter Davis recorded the biggest song of her career.
  • Beyond the World of Music: President John F Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas, the world mourned. On TV, The Beverly Hillbillies were the top TV show, Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton was tops at the Box Office. It’s all 1963 our year on this episode of Time Machine from the Current.

The Splendid Table

New episode – August 26

  • This week we’re talking to Jorge Gaviria author of Masa: Techniques, Recipes and Reflections on a Timeless Staple and Chef Vishwesh Bhatt author of I Am From Here: Stories and Recipes from a Southern Chef.
  • Please note, Francis and friends will be taking your culinary questions! Record your question or comment on your phone using your voice memo app and send it to us at contact@splendidtable.org or leave us a voice message at 800-537-5252. Be creative! Record with your friends!

Timely Selections

Shareable video of the week

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Health: Why do we sleepwalk?

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  • Description:The exact causes of sleepwalking are unknown but scientists have thought that genetic factors, illnesses or even just needing to go to the toilet are possible triggers. One thing is certain though, it’s not dangerous to wake up a sleepwalker. Photo: a sleepwalker stands in front of an open fridge Credit: BBC
  • Suggested social copy: What are the exact causes of sleepwalking?
  • Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds

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APM Presents special of the week

Arc of Justice

Broadcast Window: four episodes, available now – Sep 6, 2022

Length: four, one-hour long episodes

For every dollar of wealth owned by the average US white household, the average Black household has ten cents. The ARC of Justice, grounded in the scholarship of prominent African American economist William Darity Jr., explores how that racial wealth gap came to be.

The series is unique in that it focuses on the roots of the racial wealth gap in U.S. policy. It combines scholarly expertise with historical and contemporary real-world stories and voices of ordinary citizens like Hortense McClinton, a 102-year-old woman whose father was born into slavery. The tone is thoughtful, conversational and sound-rich.

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