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With The Supreme Court ruling on voting rights, Bill Cosby's conviction being vacated, and the #freeBritney movement over Britney Spears' conservatorship all making headlines, the law and America's legal system is very much a focus right now. We talk with attorney Em Carpenter who turns down the news cycle news on these complicated legal issues and breaks down the legal issues, opinion...

While celebrating American independence from England, it is the perfect time to turn down the news cycle noise and get the UK POV on the latest in American culture and politics from our friend Ben Harris who works in politics and parliament in London and shares his viewpoints from over yonder. We talk the differences in the US and UK systems of government, how President Biden is perceived abroad,...

Science! Believe the Science! Believe all scientist! She blinded me with science! After hearing so much about science, how science works, and how politics & culture can shape the perceptions of science during the Covid-19 pandemic, we turn down the noise on the controversies, debates, and conspiracy theories surround science in the Covid era and turn to scientist Michael Siegel to explain when...

Over a year after the killing of George Floyd we now know the sentencing for former police officer Derek Chauvin for it: 22.5 years in prison. But how did verdict land with the folks in Minneapolis? Was this justice to them? We turn down the noise on everything we've heard about George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, the protests and the riots that happened and get to the information about where Minneap...

Turning down the noise and getting beyond the images and narratives of Portland from the protest and violence, and getting to the information beyond with PDX locals Burt Likko & Tod Kelly. What is really happening on the ground in the city, how does Portland's history and laws affect the protests, and some blunt talk about the history of the city's issues with race and how the percepti...

“Social media is bad for your mental health” we are relentlessly told, but is engagement through technology on issues like culture and politics really a uniformly bad thing? We turn to Dr. Kathryn Gordon helps us turn down the noise in the news cycle on mental health and helps us better understand questions like did the Covid-19 pandemic really bring about a huge mental health crisis, does politic...

With yet another abuse scandal in the news, this time in the Southern Baptist Convention, we turn to our friend Jennifer Greenberg, an author, advocate, and speaker who explains how abusers use power structures to control both their victims and leverage people around them to cover their wickedness. Jennifer also worked with and was a part of Dr. Russell Moore's attempts to raise awareness at a...

Cybersecurity is all over the news and discourse, so we turn to our friend John McCumber, who has been doing cybersecurity since before it was even called that. How terminology and meaning of words puts us on a bad footing discussing security to start with, public/private dynamic between the government and companies, what those consultants are really doing and looking for, and we also touch on Joh...

Of all the bad takes on the interwebs, bad legal takes on social media are truly having a field day right now. Our friend and lawyer Em Carpenter joins us in her ongoing quest to set the record straight on what HIPAA does and does not do, what Krispy Kreme donuts have to do with the Nurnberg Codes (hint: rhymes with stuffing) and why understanding the law constrains her political opinions on some...

You might have heard tell there is still a lot of talk about the last election even though some parts have started working on this years, and many folks look ahead to 2022, 2024, and beyond. We turn down the noise on the debates surround the 2020 election, legislation like HR1 and HR4 in Congress, actions by states, and all sorts or takes and conspiracy theories and turn up the information with wr...