James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana take a look at Brittney Griner’s detention and recent trial in Russia and consider how common geopolitical leverage ploys seems dirtier when a person’s life or liberty is at stake (01:50). The guys also discuss Elon Musk’s move to get out of his contract to buy Twitter and how some in our society leverage adoration to avoid consequences for their actions (36:20).
What Brittney Griner's detention in Russia tells us about basketball's gender pay gap (NPR)
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to be released after agreement with U.S. in wire fraud case (CNBC)
Trump threatened a trade war with Sweden over A$AP Rocky’s arrest (The Times)
Elon Musk Says He's Terminating Twitter Deal, Board to Fight (Time)
It Couldn’t Be More Obvious What Elon Musk Is Doing (Slate)
Opinion: The SEC alone can't police billionaire CEOs like Elon Musk (CNN)
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana take a look back at the 2022 midterm election now that things have pretty much shaken and consider why...
How someone responds in the face of crisis is telling, so with societies around the globe in crisis mode dealing with COVID-19, James Keys,...
Fascism is a label that gets thrown around more often than is warranted, so James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss what Fascism really is,...