On today’s BradCast, Brad and Desi are off breathing deeply. I’m sitting in – Angie Coiro, host of the syndicated In Deep with Angie Coiro.
First up, I spend time with ZIVA BRANSTETTER, Senior Editor with Reveal. She and the Reveal investigative team broke a number of key stories involving the child detainees this week: the drugging of the kids, violence, sexual misconduct, and petty theft at the camps and facilities; who’s making money off the detentions; and what agencies are charged with cleaning up the mess. And yes, she confirms: this has been going on for a good many years. The blatant wholesale grabbing of toddlers from parents is an ugly Trump twist, but Barack Obama has a lot to answer for, too.
Then onto the latest SCOTUS decision. The 5-4 verdict supports privacy protections from government trying to follow personal movements through cell site data. CYRUS FARIVAR of Ars Technica and author of the new book Habeas Data breaks the decision down – including its historic footing, and its peculiarly arbitrary “six day†rule.
Advertising brings up its own privacy issues. Long-time media critic KEN AULETTA has a new book, Frenemies. He probes here into exactly how tense the battle has become between advertisers, their agencies, and individual consumers trying to keep bits of their lives to themselves.
Finally: exactly how crazy the battle for Silicon Valley primacy and the consumer dollar can get: JOHN CARREYROU talks about the Theranos scandal. If you think you’re already cynical enough about what companies will risk to get your dollar – well, maybe you’re wrong. His deservedly bestselling book is Bad Blood: Secrets and Lives in a Silicon Valley Startup.
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Can you post your shows on YouTube or another site (or perhaps embed their player on your site)? Your site consistently gives me trouble in obtaining your shows. If I stream the show, the stream often craps-out mid-show. If I download the show, the files are often corrupted & won’t open. The result is that I usually end up downloading your entire show several times before I can actually listen to the entire show – something that just makes you pay for extra and unnecessarily bandwidth. This has been going on for years and from multiple computers & IPs. Thanks.
Paul –
I’m somewhat perplexed by the problem you report, if only because I’m not getting it from anyone else (nor have I been able to repeat it myself.)
While we have no plans to post to YouTube for now (which is generally for video, and would require a different type of rendering on our part), we do post it to several other third party sites which may help you get around whatever prob you’re having there.
We’re on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman/id803467610
On Stitcher here: http://stitcher.com/s/player.php?fid=25838&src=psl
On TuneIn here: http://tunein.com/radio/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565/
And at KFPK.org’s archives here: https://archive.kpfk.org/index.php
Hoping one of those will do the trick for you, to work around whatever prob you’re having. But, of course, if not, please let me know. May be best to reach me via email, so I can try to find some time to trouble shoot the prob with you specifically.
Sorry for whatever has been causing the prob there! And thanks for continuing to try despite the still-mysterious hassle!