Brian Gongol Show on WHO Radio - July 21, 2018
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Breaking news to watch
- Tornado and other storm surveys from Bondurant, Marshalltown, Pella, and elsewhere
Segment 1: (11 min)
BUT FIRST: The opening essay
Segment 2: (8 min)
Emily Barske, news editor of the Marshalltown Times-Republican
- Second week on the job
- Hometown newspaper
- Current conditions in town
- How did the paper get out?
Live read: Smart speakers (hour 1)
Smart speakers
Segment 3: (14 min)
"The Price of Greatness"
Author Jay Cost -- @jaycosttws
- The book in your own words
- Could Hamilton and Madison each have left a mark without the other?
- How did the relationship turn adversarial?
- What marks does the relationship leave on us today?
- Remarkable, isn't it, that what was built for a nation of 4 million has been scaled up to more than 325 million today?
Segment 4: (5 min)
"The Price of Greatness"
Author Jay Cost -- @jaycosttws
- Lessons learned from writing the book
Segment 5: (11 min)
Live read: Smart speakers (hour 2)
Smart speakers
Segment 6: (8 min)
Segment 7: (14 min)
Live read: iHeartRadio app
iHeartRadio app
Segment 8: (5 min)
Quote of the Week
"The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it..." - John Stuart Mill
- Not the color or the faith of the people, the worth of the people
- Not the worth of the government or the parties, the worth of the individuals
- Tribes may be natural, but they're natural in a way that is backwards
- We're truly the original state that comes from the ideas of the Enlightenment
- A better country is only the product of better people
- Each of us has to do something to make ourselves better, but we also have to apply some gentle guidance to our offspring and some social pressure to our peers to push everybody to be better
- American greatness isn't something that can be done for or to us...either we do it for ourselves, or we aren't great
Unsorted and leftovers:
This week
By the numbers
Make money
Have fun
Clean up after yourself
Mind your business
The week in technology
Your role in cyberwar
Iowa news
Contrary to popular opinion
Hyperbole is going to kill us all
21st Century conservatism
Curiosity, competence, and humility
Have a little empathy
Inbox zero
Stop the deliberate ignorance
Tin Foil Hat Award
Yay Capitalism Prize
Capitalist solution of the week
Totally Unnecessary Debate of the Day
Kickers
One year ago
Five years ago
Ten years ago
Programming notes
Live read: Contests
Calendar events to highlight
Listen on-demand
- Podcast of this episode (forthcoming)
- Official station page for this episode (forthcoming)