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WCPT 820
"louisiana tech university" Discussed on WCPT 820
"8 20. And held me until it was morning all is grace by palace brothers. This is democracy now democracy now dot org the war and peace report. I mean, good ministry continue our conversation with drew mckevitt, author of the forthcoming book gun country, gun capitalism, culture and control and Cold War America. He's associate Professor of history at Louisiana tech university. We're talking to him in Shreveport. We only have a few more minutes true. But if you got cut off right in the middle of you making that connection between this massive proliferation of guns in America, I mean we don't see anything like this in any industrialized country in the world. The connection between that and capitalism. Yeah, that's right. And bringing the world in is a really important component there too because it's partly the world that helps arm Americans after World War II. We often think of how the United States is responsible for the prolific proliferation of weapons and violence after the Second World War, which is, of course, all true throughout the Cold War. But more so, arms come into the United States after the Second World War. And the American population is armed with the weapons that had been used in the Second World War and left over on battlefields in Europe and Asia. There's a whole cohort of wily entrepreneurs gun entrepreneurs who maximize the profits they can get by grabbing these guns from Europe. Sometimes for as cheap as less than a dollar each, bringing them over to the United States and then selling them to an eager population now increasingly after the Second World War with more leisure time with more money, more income available for those kinds of activities. And of course, the most famous of these war surplus imports. There were millions of them that come into the United States in the 1950s and the 1960s, the most famous of these is the Carcano rifle used by Lee Harvey Oswald to kill John F. Kennedy in 1963, but it's just one of millions that come into the country and truly remake the consumer market for guns in the United States. And they do that in two ways. They won, they make it one centered around war and firearms that have been involved in war and firearms that can be used for war. That's where we get that's where we see the trajectory leading to something like the popularity of the AR-15. And then the other aspect is that it simply emphasizes cheapness, American consumerism drives down the price of these guns and a $10 gun becomes just as accessible as a $150 gun. And that's going to dramatically expand the gun market. As I said, the number of guns in the United States doubles every 25 years or so after the end of the Second World War precisely the cause of that phenomenon. And then you have the other way it going the other way. I mean, you've got the gun violence in the United States and the U.S. involvement in international small arms trade and trafficking and refusing to sign off on being an obstacle at the UN to sign off on treaties that would limit small guns in the world. Yeah, that's right. I mean, if we look back at the process in the United Nations beginning in the mid 1990s and leading all the way up to finally the signing of a completely watered down tree in 2013, we saw the real powerful influence of the NRA there. And in particular, in particular, the NRA's kind of bulldog, John Bolton, who went to the UN in 2001 and tried to shut down every international effort that would have created any kind of substantive controls on international small arm sales. And then a very quickly two issues. Tennessee. I mean, perhaps the trying to get rid of the two youngest black lawmakers, the Republican House speaker and his allies in the Tennessee legislature was about trying to prevent the push for gun control in Tennessee, which so many support, though you wouldn't know it within the legislature. And now, while they're not protecting the children, they want to protect the arms industry a bill that's now going to bill Lee's desk, the Tennessee governor who signed off on a gun deregulation bill in a beretta gun factory. Yeah, so I heard you mentioned the 2005 law, the protection of protection of lawful commerce and arms act, which already shields, which already shields gun makers from liability in a number of ways. And that law was written in the wave in the wake of a wave of lawsuits against gun makers by gun control organizations by large municipalities that sought to force the gun makers to pay for the consequences of the seemingly uncontrolled proliferation of firearms that was dramatically that had ticked up dramatically in the early 1990s. In addition to the very obvious human trauma, there are, of course, economic costs to gun violence as well. And so the PCL AA, or the PLC AA, the intention of that was to shield gun makers nationally. And of course, it's signed into law by the George W. Bush administration so that gun makers could not be sued for their guns working as they are designed to maim and kill human beings. With the Tennessee legislature is doing, I think, is essentially a kind of lip service to essentially a moot point in that there are already those protections in place, but I also think the Tennessee legislature watched what happened last year within the Remington case when Remington the rifle maker Remington was settled with the sandy hook families for $73 million. And that's what they're trying to prevent. Gun control organizations and activists from looking for loopholes in the 2005 law like, for instance, in the case of sandy hook, targeting their advertising rather than the guns themselves. And Tennessee wants to cut that off because ultimately the sanctity of gun capitalism must remain secure. Drew mckevitt, I want to thank you so much for being with us author of the forthcoming book gun country gun capitalism culture and control and Cold War America. Speaking to us from Shreveport, which is an associate Professor of history at Louisiana tech university. As we turn now to South Texas, where Elon Musk SpaceX is claiming success after the first launch of its massive new rocket dubbed starship. The two stage prototype lifted off Thursday morning from SpaceX's sprawling base on Texas Gulf Coast near the U.S. border with Mexico, becoming a largest and heaviest machine ever to fly under its own power. At least 6 of the rockets 33 engines failed during flight. The vehicle self destructed over the Gulf of Mexico, about four minutes after liftoff, residents of port Isabel, near the launch site, reported particulates or ash rained down on their neighborhoods. The fiery end to the launch was the latest in a series of explosions around SpaceX's launch site near the lower Rio Grande valley national wildlife refuge. This comes as three liquefied natural gas projects in the Rio Grande valley, where just approved by ferc. That's the federal energy regulatory commission. Indigenous environmental and community organizers responded Thursday to the SpaceX launch and explosion and denounced the new projects. This is Christopher bustle do
WCPT 820
"louisiana tech university" Discussed on WCPT 820
"Kind of get medication. We have people kind of give education and at the moment these are a lot of more justice systems happening, beating people up, giving people. Raising, because again, within the prices of these traumatic, you know, many people can't really handle that, so before the government kills you, people are killing themselves. To see our interview with Ugandan LGBTQ activist Frank mugisha, go to our website, democracy now. Dot org. Back in the United States, the Republican controlled House has passed a bill that would ban transgender women and girls from competing in sports at schools and colleges that receive federal funding. The measure has no chance of passing the democratic led Senate while The White House said President Biden would veto the bill if it made it to his desk. Bans on transgender athletes are being challenged by the ACLU in Idaho, Tennessee and West Virginia. This week, North Dakota became the latest state to enact a law criminalizing gender affirming care for minors. Over 450 bills attacking the rights of transgender people have been introduced in state legislatures nationwide. In Atlanta, Georgia protesters rallied outside the Fulton county jail on Thursday. Demanding the closure of the 11 story 1300 bed facility demanding justice for Lesean Thompson. The 35 year old black man who was being held in the jail psychiatric wing was eaten alive by insects and bedbugs in his cell last year. This according to Thompson's family, civil rights lawyer Ben crump reports former NFL quarterback and activist colon copernic has agreed to pay for an independent autopsy of Thompson's body. Meanwhile, Fulton county commissioners have approved $5 million in funding for emergency improvements to the jail. Thompson's family and local activists are calling on the Department of Justice to launch an investigation. Tiffany Roberts of the southern center for human rights said quote, how long will we hide from the reality that Fulton county is chronically dysfunctional and there is no humanity in a system like this. She asked to see our democracy now broadcast exclusive interview with the family attorney as well as Lesean Thompson's brother and sister go to democracy now dot org. Oklahoma's court of criminal appeals has denied the latest request by death row prisoner Richard glossop for a new trial. Paving the way for his execution may 18th. Thursday's ruling came after Oklahoma's attorney general, asked for 1998 murder conviction to be vacated. In a decades long case in which glossop narrowly escaped execution three times glossop has always maintained and is in a sense. Mike lindell, the CEO of my pillow and staunch Trump ally, was ordered to pay $5 million for losing his 2021 prove Mike wrong challenge. After a computer forensics expert showed that there was no Chinese interference in the 2020 election as lindell had claimed. An arbitration panel found Robert seidman, a Republican who twice voted for Trump disprove Mike lindell's data, which he called manufactured and bogus. SpaceX is claiming success. After the first launch of its massive new rocket dubbed starship. The two stage prototype lifted off Thursday morning from SpaceX's sprawling base on Texas Gulf Coast near the U.S. border with Mexico, becoming the largest and heaviest machine ever to fly under its own power. At least 6 of the rockets, 33 engines failed during flight and the vehicle self destructed over the Gulf of Mexico, about four minutes after liftoff. Residents of port Isabel near the launch site reported particulates, rained down on their neighborhoods. The fiery end to the launch was the latest in a series of explosions around SpaceX launch, site near the lower Rio Grande valley national wildlife refuge. After headlines will go to Brownsville, Texas for the latest. BuzzFeed news is shutting down. The announcement was made by BuzzFeed CEO and cofounder Jonah peretti in an email to staff where he said the company is laying off 15% of its employees across multiple divisions, HuffPost, which BuzzFeed acquired in 2020, will now be the company's sole news brand. This came on the same day the digital news media company insider, formerly known as Business Insider, said it would cut 10% of its workforce. And in Chile, president Gabriel Boris announced he is moving to nationalize his country's lithium industry. One of the largest lithium reserves of the world. It is a mineral that being in bus and electric cars energy storage batteries is key in the fight against the climate crisis. And in the fight against climate change, this is an opportunity for economic growth that will be difficult to beat in the short term. Any private companies extracting lithium will have to partner with the state, which will hold majority stakes in new production contracts. This comes as environmental activists this week protested Chile's approval to extend Anglo American's copper mining activities in the Andes, which advocates say threatens a nearby glacier and the areas water supply. And these are some of the headlines this is democracy now democracy now dot org the war and peace report. I'm Amy Goodman. It has been another deadly week in the United States. As gun violence shattered families and communities across the country. And one of the most shocking cases, a white homeowner in Kansas City, shot a black teenager in the head who rang his doorbell by mistake. Prosecutors say 84 year old Andrew Lester exchanged no words with 16 year old Ralphie arles before opening fire on him through a glass door, striking him in the chest and head. Jarl had simply gone to the wrong house to pick up his younger twin brothers. You're all survived. He's now recovering from a traumatic brain injury. The shooter's grandson appeared on CNN Thursday and described his grandfather as a racist who avidly watched Fox News and embraced conspiracy theories. Meanwhile, in New York, a 65 year old man has been charged with second degree murder for fatally shooting a 20 year old woman named kalen Gillis, who'd mistakenly pulled into the wrong driveway. In Elgin, Texas, two cheerleaders were shot by a man in a parking lot of a grocery store on Tuesday. After one of them mistakenly tried to get into his car thinking it was her own. Meanwhile, a North Carolina man has turned himself in after shooting a 6 year old and her parents after the girl tried to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into the man's yard. The number of mass shootings in the United States this year has now reached 166 on average. There's been more than one mass shooting every day this year in the United States. In Alabama, 6 people have been arrested on murder charges in connection with the recent mass shooting at a sweet 16 birthday party and Dave ville Alabama that left four people dead and 32 injured. Over the weekend, the National Rifle Association held its annual convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. Less than two hours from Louisville, Kentucky, where a gunman armed with an AR-15 style semi-automatic assault rifle killed 5 people in a bank where he used to work April 10th. To talk more about the gun epidemic in the United States, we're joined now by Andrew mckevitt, associate Professor of history at Louisiana tech university, author of the forthcoming book gun country gun capitalism, culture and control in Cold War America. Drew, welcome to democracy now. It's great to have you with us, though under horrible circumstances. Why don't
Ace and TJ
"louisiana tech university" Discussed on Ace and TJ
"Nothing but seltzer is rob a until i got to the establishment there. They only had miller lights football stadium. It's not an establishment lou combs graduate from appalachian state university or in. I think he attended think he finished. Because you you can't be called on alum unless you graduate right right true. He dropped out. Because i mean that would if if that's the case then i'm gonna start call myself a lump of louisiana tech university. He even though. I dropped it like it was hot here. Did you drop them or did they drop you. Dropped out of them. You know i did. I did Get kicked out one time for bad grades and then i made up a bunch of lies and she told him. My dad had a heart attack and almost died. And i had to be home taking care of and all that nice. Yeah and they let me back in. That's horrible monday. Came up with what. Oh my god. I know shit who also glad to quit. Hated it and people always go. Don't you wish you would have finished. Not really because. If i would've finished i wouldn't be doing what i'm doing now sitting in a piece together studio time when i should be looking at retiring a healthy retirement and now that and but hey. You're nominated for marconi for the first semester. I share macaroni. That's what i've been doing. Not even on the radio. Your home market metro nominated for being on the radio. You can buy food with the marconi nomination about that. You sure can't Prostitutes do we get a card or a black a certificate or anything for being nominated. Do we well. We have anything because we're not gonna win. So did we get anything to show for a marconi. i don't know. I'm surely they'll send out something like a little certificate and we know if it if it comes in here. You'll be at the frame shop. That does it taste some framed. He's all that stuff and they come in and know that we are not jerking around here. I know we're we're for real but nobody's coming in here wherever they will one day the next place we were saying earlier. We need to hang some stuff on the wall. Because it's kind of bayer looking. You mean all the old paraphernalia. Those articles about in the news had framed and two things. One i think We just need something that needs to feel like. it's more us right and to try to believe that businesses. What did you say subtract track. I believe businesses should show off their success for people when they come see it. That people should see them because it's like a marketing thing for example. We went to kids studio that day. Kid cry our friend. They had nominate all. That stuff was on the walls in different places in his in his studio in his studio though or in the offices and all that well. He does offices because they had science in their studio. Because they're our done up right so we can put all of that stuff up in rob's room in there as long as yeah people can see that my my posters up to now you mean like superheroes hot topic and get some day so now how do you feel about your new office Who's going to be turned into a shrine. He's videos fan going through a bunch of old and videos of him when he was on stage with this band and all good. It was cool but you know good. That's why he was going through. I got five stuff to put on. Rob's walls damn good. Well the reason i started going through that was trying to find that song. You're looking for that. We had for years ago wasn't on. That thing started going through the rest of the box. Almost i stumbled across this on my laptop. No you know what it is found my storage room. There was a whole box. Have couple of boxes of old show. Things like There's a whole thing of these goo goo dolls deaf leopard. What am. I can't get to play this deaf leopard video that we interviewed him. And all this kind of kid rock. All that stuff is in our own. Cd's storage bin. And that's what. I was going through these boxes because he was looking for this song about nine. Eleven that we did. We found one but it was the wrong one. but i found all these interviews. We did after nine. Eleven sean and all these people that we had on the show and all this kind of stuff and that was one of the cd's was a why. And i put it in because it wasn't label. It was a charity case seat. Dvd that was pretty bad ass. Sweet you know what else that. I've not fun and entertaining with anybody else. No seriously bring like all that stuff kid. You have framed and everything and just i mean. There's a lot of wall space in there. What do we always feel right now. I don't know if that's like old pictures of us. And we need is a swag because when but listen when people look at old pictures of us. Didn't they look at us. They go damn. Y'all old is ale right. We were no no no. But we're gonna alexis. I'm saying she's going today to get a table and something for this corner. But she's been saying that. Since tuesday last week macabre down and i went the wrong way to work. I don't know how you know where where the radio station is like we should. I don't know where he is now. Oh my god cool kumano what we need. You can get some shelves and put him up. And then you can we. We lead though instead of these banners is the logo. Whatever you do with the logo walls like with a with. What do you call that fat head stuff like that has could peel off. And yeah i don't know but you don't talk about that stuff you can have those those things cut out that you could put on the walls that would make it make it Dot look so obvious we're hanging banners. That's just what. I need a giant ace head in here. He's wants fat head of himself naked. Spray and doodoo particles build it exactly. Yeah we can do all that. But i think the we're going to start you know sprucing things up. You know because we're balling on a budget. Yeah i think that the first thing we should spruce off a is the desk situation. I would agree. I think we need to oscillate possibly some equipment where i can control volume headphones. Yeah you know things like that. We need to make a list adams. Say give me your fantasy list whenever it was time to renegotiate a contract. He's giving your fancy lists so we need to do that now. And then See how fast he throws it away. We're not gonna be able to do that for a while guys. You're looking from blood from.
The Super Human Life
"louisiana tech university" Discussed on The Super Human Life
"At arnold. Let me look at a few other. So i just grabbed a few people that motivated me both in my sphere in also that i saw on tv. On the internet. I get to college. I just started doubling down on food in lifting heavy which i never done of the two and i put on about sixty pounds in my first six months and i went from one thirty one thirty five up to one ninety. Got some friends that were on the football team in. I'd i'd always wanted to play football just too small to insecure. Would it take for me to walk onto the football team. 'cause i i had athleticism and i didn't fully know no but i started seeing that as i played flag football and guttering guys on the actual team at louisiana tech university. Can they're like man you. You're running with us. You got a chance here so that kinda got me excited a doubled down on training got around a little bit more. They've got up to one. Ninety five ran a four. Six forty had pretty good. Hops could dunk a basketball developed via my sophomore year in college. So i make start making the rounds in the process to walk onto the football team. Sophomore year spring my sophomore year. Two thousand seven and as i'm progressing through that in looking like i have a good chance to not only get on the team but maybe play by senior year which is a stretch but still exciting. I get this crazy freak accident bor injury that takes me out. Severe second third degree burns on my legs weight down. Thankfully it wasn't higher. Burn my nuts off but that takes me out. I'm in the icu. Burn unit for a month. I can't walk. A there was a chance that i could have died the whole that i fell into. That's a whole different story. But i fell into was eighty deep and so it had i sunk all the way in. I would have died from a bullying pit of water. That was like a pie crust on the ground. I'm walking across. It didn't see it several story. But what did was suspended my ability to play football and pursue that athletic dream as relevant to your your audience and athletes. Just i never became a high level athlete. Totally twenty five years old whereas most people are starting in their teens in the building that up in their plateauing at twenty five. I'm almost thirty five now. And i'm i would say i'm more than that plateau randomly hitting a stride. So it's never too late. And as i law said opportunity to play football in a year later physically recovered but i decided it's not worth me. Doubling back ended. Try to play the loss of things. When i have a potential and promising engineering career developing. Let me play the smart move. Let me move on engineering as my future source of career in income and kinda put the dreams of athleticism on the back burner. I can't working out. But i didn't really know much about nutrition so i slowly gained weight just lifted heavy. But i didn't do any sprints or cardio moving into graduating getting a job in houston. High performance engineering company like was the fortune number one company at the time. I was kinda excited to have a good shot at that and got it opened some cool doors come to houston led the fun adventurous. Lifestyles rome in the world to some degree..
Behind the Prop
Interview With Jessica Garcia, SWA First Officer
"What's up walling. Hey bobby how are you. I'm great this is our third guest and we are excited to have her on the show today with us as a pass flight instructor from united flight systems current southwest airlines first officer and someone with a very interesting aviation story that we're gonna talk about today today. We have on the show jessica garcia. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. And i know We're gonna talk a lot about today but you also have to be married to a pilot as well an my wonderful husband. Ricky who also instructed here structure. And i heard good news for ricky recently. Is that true. He got hired at commuter airlines Friday very excited and so he was an express jet in lives in houston listened to show. They probably have heard about all the things that happened. Express jet so it's great to hear that ricky's back in the in the in the cockpit. Doing great things for aviation excited. I'm i'm pumped for him. He's ready to get back in the airplane so we have a lot to talk about today but as the current owner of united flight systems. It's a it's a great time when a previous flight search comes back and shares with me stories and things from the past. You've obviously spent many an hour behind a prop as an airplane owners still today. You spend a lot of time on the probe had any idea. How many hours do will you gave here at this. Oh it's gotta be at least twelve hundred I remember one day sitting down with my logbook in between students. And i recognized that my total dual received in total dual given was equal spicer past that milestone here and then i think i want to say about twelve hundred dollars instructing here nice and that that was that in the day where you could just get the fifteen hundred right to the airline sort of. I was in the weird transition area where the atp was being required by the by the regional airlines to get hired. But it what you didn't have to do the atp p. course so i ended up being able to do my atp on my own without having to the course but you still have to have the fifteen hundred hours so kind of an awkward phase. I think i got my atp in june and the the law passed in august. For the so. I guess for our listeners. We've we've obviously prepped and talked a little bit. Tell us a little bit about your aviation career where he went to college. How you found this place and then did you go right to the airlines are or what will happen there. So i started flying recreationally in abilene texas. Where i'm from Just doing it for fun. I grew up flying with my dad in the right seat of various aircraft wanting bananas barons and the end of my freshman year of college. He said okay. You can go to summer school. You can get a job or you can get your pilot's license and so i opted to go get my pilot's license obviously and had an a wonderful instructor. Who is now one. She is my best friend. We are incredibly close. She flies for fedex and she she said you know. You're kind of good at this. Have you considered doing it as a career and up until that point i hadn't been exposed to the opportunities in careers in aviation so took me to my first women in aviation conference and it was like being around thousands of my taipei. Best friends And they all took me by the hand. I was nineteen years old. And said we're going to show you what it means to be a professional pilot and i decided right then and there that was going to be my career up until then i was studying marketing And liked it but didn't love it so went back to abilene finished my instrument rating then i transferred to louisiana tech university where i finished my commercial. Cfi of mea. I instructed for the school for a few months loved being attack. I'm very proud Louisiana tech bulldog and but it wasn't building flight time quite quick enough and so a friend of mine called me and said there's a flight school in houston. I think you'd be a great fit at work. Consider interviewing so. I called united flight systems. Talk to the previous owner. Bob watts and his daughter laura and they brought us in for an interview me and my husband. I secretly brought my husband along with me to interview as well. And we they us right then and there and so within a month. I moved houston and begin. Instructing here instructed for. I guess it would have been about two and a half years and then had one of my workers official instructor. Here come into my office and say would you like to fly corporate. And i'd always been really interested in corporate aviation i. I grew up around general aviation being there in abilene. We had a little bit of a regional airline flying but not a lot So i had more exposure to corporate. And i said sure didn't know what the airplane was had. Never heard of. It was a cessna. Conquest twin engine turboprop and met with the the woman who was flying that airplane and we went and just had dinner and and chit chatted and she said. I think you'd be a great fit. Would you come fly with me. So that was my introduction to part one thirty five Flew for them for a couple of years loved it. That was a flu for a family. There's still a dear dear and special in my life The woman i flew with is still very dear to me. We get together as often as we can into pilots
Around the Rim
Inside The Women Of Troy
"Welcome inside a special edition of around the rim. One that tells the story of the nineteen eighty three and eighty four championship teams for the USC Trojans. Their women's basketball program was a trailblazer in. Its own way where they had almost a super team of some of the biggest names in college. Basketball Cheryl Miller Cynthia Cooper panic. Paula McGee What Dynasty. They were what a talented team so fun to watch. I'm your host. Let's China Robinson. Join as always by my fantastic and fabulous producer to Riga foster bradsby. Then we are going to take you inside with some of the biggest names in biggest contributors to the success of that team and people that can tell the story the best. That's right the China so to help us tell that story. We've enlisted. Six people knew this team the best head coach. Linda Sharp assistant coach. Fred Williams team captain Juliet Robinson Point Guard Rhonda Wyndham forward. Pamela MCGEE AND GUARD CYNTHIA COOPER DYKE. So throughout this podcast. You're going to hear them. Discuss their relationships together coming together as a team learning how to play with each other learning each other on the prime that they have in USC and what it meant to be a Trojan and what it was like as far as the landscape of women's basketball at that time the rivalries. I'm you're going to get to know more about the players in from their teammates themselves. And you'll hear clips from Geno Auriemma Reggie Miller. Doris Burke teasha Chiro the nineteen eighty-four Olympics Paula. Mcgee and the cause from the championship games of nineteen eighty three and one thousand nine hundred eighty four. Let's all get a history lesson from the inside of what was so special about USC. Women's basketball in the women of Louisiana Tech University and the University of Southern California trojans outlet more southern California at forward six three junior from Flint Michigan number eleven all over more southern California at Bulwer from Riverside California number thirty one zero southern California Singer. Six three junior from Flint Michigan over thirty southern California had guard a by rescued from New York City. We're southern yard five nine zero number or no