Pinot & Policy Arbitror

Sophia Freuden sat down with Chloe Freuden, a registered nurse in the State of Washington, to discuss recent policy recommendations issued by the CDC regarding masks. They also chatted about medical misinformation, legal action being taken against it, and how coronavirus will impact the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

In this week's episode, Pinot & Policy winos Drake MacFarlane and Hannah Cowden receive a lesson in epidemiology, virology, and the efficacy of boxed wine mimosas from special guest Michael Luzadder -- a real life STEM major. Truly, high school biology is better with booze.

The Pinot & Policy crew invites special guest Phoebe Gresser, a political liaison with the Outlaw Dirty Money initiative in Arizona, to discuss the impact of social distancing on campaigns and ballot initiatives across America. Oh, and we get wine drunk at noon, as is tradition.

Drake MacFarlane, Hannah Cowden, and Sophia Freuden teamed up to talk about the pending apocalypse, otherwise known as coronavirus. No stone was left unturned, including risks of the pandemic, its economic and political impact, and what it means for gerontocracy in the United States.

Drake MacFarlane, Hannah Luzadder, and Sophia Freuden hop on this episode to talk Bloomberg's meme campaign to win the Democratic nominations, corporate capture of natural artistic communities, influencer culture, and everything else on the internet that makes you want to rage quit life.

Sound: "Nylon string Guitar with steel string bass" by 4barrelcarb on Freesound.org with a CC0 1.0 license (https://freesound.org/people/4barrelcarb/sounds/362832/?fbclid=IwAR2G4subNLPXgLCECsV7eoRHhHa-Erf9Ye8CgdlEm9JKXPCP_M1BUfri8EU).

Drake MacFarlane and Sophia Freuden sit down to discuss our cyber overlords, Facebook and Google, as well as some antitrust investigations that have been launched against them in recent weeks. They go over the legal history of major antitrust laws in the US, privacy scandals, possible legal defenses for these companies, and pretty much every else that's terrifying as it relates to data and the law.

Sound: "jazz_music_loop.mp3" by anechoix with a CC BY 3.0 license (https://bit.ly/2kLiRDC).