Retraction Podcast

This week we breakdown Elon Musk’s TED exclusive interview (7:50), and the Supreme Court reinstated a Trump-era rule that curtailed the power of states and Native American tribes to block pipelines and other energy projects that can pollute rivers, streams and other waterways (43:30). Reversing course through Discourse, it’s Retraction!

This week’s episode we talk Jersey’s first licensed recreational marijuana dispensaries to open in May (3:30), and South Carolina brings back the firing squad (24:50). Reversing course through discourse on Retraction!

This week we discuss issues with NYC’s car free Earth Day (7:50), and how corporations want to “blot out the sun” with drones 300 style (28:00). Reversing course through Discourse, it’s another episode of Retraction!

This week we talk retractions and amendments to our earlier coverage of the Sunshine Protection Act (4:00), we too weigh in on the slap heard round the world (19:00), how prejudice and bias shape the lack of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous Women (41:48), and study finds path to reversing political ideologies (1:00:10). It’s time for Retraction!!

This week we talk Rubio’s plan to make Daylight Savings permanent (12:12), Ukraine retractions (23:00), and medieval horses might have been the size of a modern day pony (45:00). Come on down and join the conversation with Retraction.

This week we discuss Jeff Bezos’s super yacht, and the influence of the super rich (19:20), and then we revisit NJ marijuana and how the state continues to miss deadlines for recreational sale (45:00). Come on in and join the conversation with Retraction!

This week we continue our discussion on the crisis in Ukraine (25:26), how will the future judge our version of criminal justice (51:30), and Norway’s justice system meets a new test in probation for a mass murderer (1:27:00). Listen up. It’s time for another episode of Retraction!

This week Jaime and Antoine discuss their initial reaction to the Ukraine crisis (3:50).

This week we discuss the controversy surrounding Amazon’s take on Tolkien with the ‘Rings of Power’ (19:00), Trump soaked in toilet water (39:15), dimming of the sun to fight climate change (45:00), and pondering our next phase of evolution (55:30). Join us for all this and more on Retraction!

Jaime talks about his bout with Covid (1:24), Antoine rants about trash and taxes (12:54), another wolf update spoiler it’s getting worse (41:00), and we do some space talk around the James Webb Telescope (1:02:00). Welcome us back by listening to another episode of Retraction!

Engineered Arts does their best to convince us that humanoid robot Ameca will not be exclusive to the bedroom (2:17), TV’s you can taste (15:20), a superbug killing AI (31:10), and Portugal pushes for greater work life balance (37:55). Welcome back for another episode of Retraction!

Happy New Year! This episode we discuss the NY Times piece “Can We Trust What’s Happening to Money.” We dish on the past and future of currency (4:03). So here’s to ringing in the New Year with Retraction!

What’s the future of Christmas/holidays in general (17:36)? We also discuss a study using twins to compare vegan and non vegan guts (36:30), Space X covets our CO2 for its future rockets (56:18), and a tea drinker PSA (64:26). It’s a holiday episode! Break out a hot cup of joe, place your feet by the fire and settle in for another episode of Retraction.

This week Maxine is back! We continue the conversation about climate change on the trail (9:43), Eric Adams NYC Mayor Elect has some ideas on pushing healthier eating (48:16), and Maxine hits up some retractions from Trail Mix Part One (82:00). Journey on with another episode of Retraction!

Jaime gets ahead of the New Year’s exercise pledge with a brand new rowing machine, mass accelerators might revolutionize space exploration (8:30), digital aliens might be lying in wait to conquer us all (27:00), and new research suggests adulthood doesn’t start until sometime in the early thirties (38:00). Come on down for another episode of Retraction!

Ghost Forests creep up the Eastern Seaboard (00:33), Congress rollback flood insurance subsidies (9:00), we have another wolf update (35:00), and autonomous artificial intelligence takes the battlefield (45:00). Join us for another episode of Retraction!

For our Thanksgiving episode Jaime deep dives on the Iroquois Confederacy and how they sparked the fire that led to the creation of the United States of America (24:24). So grab a hot totty, sit by the fire and listen to another episode of Retraction!

The voters of New Jersey legalized marijuana, and yet a year later little progress has been made (5:44), and then we listen to Jaime tell a Finnish tale of methamphetamines, and high speed ski chases against the backdrop of World War 2 (38:30). Come on in and listen to another episode of Retraction!

We dish about Zuckerberg’s version of the Metaverse (1:30), Maine voters cement “the right to food” (31:00), and the history and future of segmented sleep (49:50). All this and more on this week’s episode of Retraction!

It’s a very special guest episode with our good friend and hiker extraordinaire Maxine. It’s part one of a discussion on the modern hiking experience in the shadow of the climate crisis (29:45). But first, we talk artificial turf and how in one Jersey town it’s become a hot button issue ahead of the November 2nd elections (6:50).

The episode ended but we kept on chatting about Andrew Yang and the Forward Party. Enjoy this short on the back of the episode ‘Andrew Yang Pushes Forward with a Brand New Party.’

Yang and the Forward Party (1:40), and Texas Republicans paint the town red with more gerrymandering (33:00). Join us for another bumpy ride on Retraction!

What if our role in a Galactic Federation was to be damage control (3:40), Quetzalcoatlus Northropi, big words bigger dinosaur (16:00), Apple TV does Foundation (19:46), apologies back to Dinos, but now without feathers (33:00), and the My Pillow guy publishes the code behind some of our election software and somehow that leads to Interplanetary Nationalism, go figure(49:38). All this and more on...

Farewell to Norm Macdonald (1:30), and we discuss the outcome of the Stockton, California UBI program (21:00). Come on in and listen to another episode of Retraction!!!

New theories abound about dinosaurs and NASA sends slime mold into space, have they ever seen The Blob? In the comments, let us know how you like these Shorts and thanks for listening to Retraction!