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The Round Up Podcast #2 with Gilbert, DeLong, & Berrios Pardon the Ambient Noise For The First Two and a Half Minutes. Better audio will be present in the next podcast.   Featuring Hunter Gilbert (Host, Producer, Audio Mixer) Blake DeLong (Host) Enrique Berrios (Host) Kenneth Crowe (Sound, Mics) Topics Discussed - In Order (Sort Of) . Quant nanoFlowCell technology hopes to be an alternative to EVs. It is...
Having suffered through the COVID-caused movie drought of what appeared to be a promising summer season, DC fans and moviegoers around the world rejoiced upon the arrival of DC's virtual summer convention, DC FanDome. Because of the cancellation of the highly popular San Diego Comic-Con, DC held a virtual fan event on August 22nd. This 24-hour long event showcased...
Since the MLB season is only 60 games long this year, I thought it might be appropriate to come out with this piece now, as we're just about halfway through the season. This MLB season almost didn't happen, and now that it did, the playoff picture for each league is starting to become a little bit clearer. However, there...
Michele Bachmann, the Republican representative from Minnesota’s 6th legislative district, is running for President of the United States. She is the only female candidate in the Republican primary, and last month became the first woman to win the Ames Iowa Straw Poll. She announced her candidacy on June 27 with high expectations. Because of her vocal presence as a Tea...
In 1906, young socialist Upton Sinclair rose from obscurity with the novel The Jungle, his expose of American meat packing. Sinclair’s version of the “Great American Novel” shocked the world with its gut-wrenching description of unsafe, unsanitary, and generally sickening practices of the meat packing industry (e.g., rat droppings and diseased meat jammed into sausage grinders, disgusting floor filth and...
  Far away from the Land of the Free, America, the culturally rich country of France resides between Spain and Germany. It is a hotspot of great dining, historical artifacts and vibrant fashion. The “crusty” punk group Elizabeth aims to celebrate their homeland by assaulting the world with extremely heavy and unwieldy music. Although these adjectives sound questionable, they accurately describe...
As the November 4 elections inch closer, many issues have been at the forefront of voters' minds, from the economy to national security to healthcare. Most Texans regard one controversy as the most important facing the state and the third most important for the entire country. The issue? Immigration. Immigration is a very intimate and complex issue that affects many Americans, including...
"There are more captive tigers in the US than there are in the wild." This shocking fact opens and closes one of Netflix's latest and hottest shows from March, Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness. While the title alone captivates and draws the audience's attention, it doesn't even begin to tell the insane story that weaves and develops throughout the...

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