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I was intrigued (and relieved) to read about a high school principal who makes students place their smartphones in a lock-bag for the school day. Tensions are down and grades are up. This commonsense solution to the blight of phones in the classroom is a good example of how technology outruns us until we understand it well enough to take advantage of it while holding its worst aspects at bay. This short commentary looks at the constant battle to keep up. I hope you’ll listen.

YOU ARE AT RISK; Backing Wrong Industries; A Legend Dies Karel Cast 24-56

A new report says 90% of people over 20 in the USA are at risk of heart disease. Why? Lifestyle (Lack of exercise, obesity, high blood pressure). So basically everyone . Why? Why can't we seem to get it right? It's not hard. So what's the problem. Oh, that's simple.

The Auto industry help "build" America. The Meat and Dairy industry is a backbone of American business. Wall Street is so revered politicians will pass laws to protect it and spend billions to prop it up. AirBnB, Uber all deprive hotels and taxis of work…why in the USA and world do we back all the WRONG Industries. There is $ in the right things, but no one will do it, is it OK BOOMER? Are BOOMERS the problem?

A legend, a nice man, and an acquaintance of mine is dead. That's two losses in two weeks for me. Grief is not fun.

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PORK WORM ATE BRAIN; Apple Crushes Creativity? Trump Ever Tried Karel Cast 24-54

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he had a pork worm eat his brain and gave him brain damage. And he wants to be President and calls Biden infirm. How do you know if you have a parasite and how do you get them? And did he really have them. Does Donald Trump? Does #MAGA ? Have they just been eating too much raw bacon?

Donald's Delays are working. He's not going to trial before the election for the biggest of his crimes. Why? Out of control judges that side with him or delay his trials. From the Supreme Court to local judges, they are, in fact, protecting him and treating him differently.

Apple has introduced some pretty cool iPad upgrades, and the commercial that they are using to promote them is causing all kinds of trouble amongst online creators. But is it just fake outrage?

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The Karel Cast is heard three times a week on all your favorite streaming services and the video can be seen on Youtube. Karel is a history-making #LGBTQ talk show host currently living in Las Vegas with his pup Ember.

Tornado outbreaks leave trail of destruction across multiple states; Republicans ban climate change in Florida, just in time for hurricane season; House Republicans' latest salvo in their 'War on Woke Appliances'; PLUS: A shift is underway in how U.S. culture portrays climate reality... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

This time on Code WACK!

With all its apparent advantages, why hasn’t California passed single payer yet? Is organized labor fully in the Medicare-for-All game? Do managed care providers - like Kaiser Permanente - have outsized influence on healthcare reform in the state?

To find out, we spoke to Peter Shapiro, a retired letter carrier and author of Song of the Stubborn One Thousand: the Watsonville Canning Strike (Haymarket Books 2016). He represented his union at the founding conference of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer in 2009 and has been involved with the issue ever since. He currently represents the Alameda Labor Council on the board of Healthy California Now, a single-payer advocacy coalition. This is the second episode in a two-part series with Peter Shapiro.

Check out the Transcript and Show Notes for more!

MET GALA MEH; Paying for PrEP; Daniels Storms Karel Cast 24-54

The Met Gala, a benefit for the museums costume wing, happened Monday and why do I feel very Hunger Games about it all? $75k tickets. Outfits that cost even more. I used to think it was all just celebrity good fun, but now, in today's world, it just seems…wrong. But why? We talk about it.

Stormy Daniels has spilled the tea, and just big wow. But Old Spice and Pert? I mean, really Donald? Where do you buy your toiletries, Walgreens?

PrEP Therapy, to help people not get HIV, is $2k a month or more. Should insurance companies be forced to pay for a drug that isn't needed? You don't need drugs to not get HIV, just condoms and common sense. So why when people are being denied Chemo, are we paying for this? Is it cost effective?

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The Karel Cast is heard three times a week on all your favorite streaming services and the video can be seen on Youtube. Karel is a history-making #LGBTQ talk show host currently living in Las Vegas with his pup Ember.