The Exchanges Podcast.

The Exchanges Podcast.


The Exchanges Podcast – E01 – Corporations and Political Power

October 16, 2017

THIS PODCAST: Corporations and Political Power HIGHLIGHTS (estimated times): Citizens United. Weird Comment’s Section Analogy @5:10 Loud 80s Music. Alexandra tells us about Managers Throwing Pizza Pans @9:45 Wikipedia Defines Citizens United @10:50 Kwaku Plays Devil’s Advocate @13:40 Dan Tells a story about being a jerk to Jim Martin. 5 Disadvantage Groups of Society @15:25 Why Citizen United passed? @17:48 The Michael Moore argument @19:50 The Koch argument & Corporate Stewards of society @27:10 Dazed and Confused @29:10 Are corporations people? Individual contributions. Brent’s position evolves @32:10 Never-ending election cycle @35:40 Savannah’s common sense vs. Libertarian arguments @40:00 Brent pretends to be a Libertarian @41:50 Kwaku mentions Tesla, crowd goes wild @45:56 Mark Zuckerberg for President? @49:34 Dan weighs his options: Zuckerberg or Dwayne Johnson @50:06 Kwaku endorses Kid Rock @51.08 Brent’s beef with John McCain @53:15 Brent’s weak IT Jobs conspiracy theory gets shutdown @1:02:10 Dan gets very wise @ 1:12:10 Savannah and her father paints the future @1:14:00 We slowly wade into Universal Basic Income @1:16:05 Kwaku clues us in on prisoners working in Fast Food @1:18:20 We revisit Foxcomm. Conflict-free phones? @ 1:19:00 Dan lets us know what’s the worst thing to happen to a third world country @1:20:14 Politicians are a reflect of us. How will these times be taught in school history @1:24:30 Alexandra tell us about bad teachers and give us our next topic: @ 1:30:00   Intro Music Credit: Artist – William Ross; Song – Ahmed; Album – William Ross Chernoof’s Nomads Link: https://bandcamp.com/signup?new_domain=williamross Outro Music Credit: Artist – Milton Arias; Song – Vidala en Verde; Album – Antes del Fin Link: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Milton_Arias/