Adequately Informed

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By: Joe Hicks

Joe Hicks and Evan Kelly discuss News, Culture, and Ideas in good faith adequatelyinformed.substack.com

84 - The Final Episode
02/07/2022

It’s here, it’s bitter sweet. Evan and Joe talk about the history of Adequately Informed, the top 10 episodes, what it meant to them, and what the future holds for the two. We thank everyone who has listened over the years and hope that we've helped you be Adequately Informed.

Evan’s Blog:

http://www.midwesternperspective.com/

Joe’s Newsletter:

https://inlandnobody.substack.com/

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83 - The Penultimate
01/17/2022

This week Evan and Joe talk school closures and Will Smith. This will also be the second to last episode of the show, we want to do one final episode in the future and would love to respond to anything you guys want to say and would love to shout out to all of our listeners. You guys are great and thanks for listening over the years!

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82 - 2021 in Recap!
12/06/2021

This week, in our final episode of the year, Evan and Joe look back on 2021 in politics, culture, and on a personal level.

Joe's Newsletter:
https://inlandnobody.substack.com/

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81 - Mayor Pete Buttigieg Pt 2
11/23/2021

This week Evan and Joe talk about the new Pete Buttigieg documentary and PFAS

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80 - Local Power
11/08/2021

This week Evan and Joe discuss the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, Elon Musk shenanigans, and Joe's adventures in interacting with local Government

Joe's Newsletter:
https://inlandnobody.substack.com/

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79 - Sinners, Saints, and Fools
10/24/2021

This week Evan and Joe talk Brandi Carlile's new album and what's going on with inflation these days

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78 - Dave Chappelle is a TERF
10/18/2021

This week Evan and Joe take on the resignation of Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden. On the back half they then tackle Dave Chappelle’s new special “The Closer” and his transphobic remarks.

Joe’s New Substack Inland Nobody:

https://inlandnobody.substack.com/

Contrapoints video about TERFs and J.K. Rowling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDKbT_l2us&t=1s

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77 - Is Survivor too woke?
10/04/2021

This week Evan and Joe tackle the big topics of the day. First we discuss the drama of longtime reality TV show “Survivor” apparently being too woke. Then we move on to discuss the leaked report from Facebook about how Instagram is destroying the mental health of teenage girls.

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76 - 1 Missing Woman, 90 million Empty Units, and a 1 Trillion Dollar Coin
09/27/2021

This week Evan and Joe start off by discussing the disapearance and murder of Gabby Petito and what it says about our media landscape. Then they dive into the imminent collapse of the Chinese real estate firm Evergrande. And then they finish out by discussing the 1 Trillion dollar coin, a possible work around of the debt ceiling.

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75 - A Different Perspective: An Interview with an Iraq War Vet
09/20/2021

This week Evan and Joe interview Derwin who is an Iraq War Vet, Podcaster, and Publisher. We talked with him about what the War on Terror was like from the front lines, his perspective on the matter. We also get into his creative endeavors.

To see more of Derwin's work, Here's his podcats:
https://open.spotify.com/show/0mugStnWVXS2bKnxw3RtET

And his publishing website:
https://www.dividedbyzerobooks.com/

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74 - Defund the Conservatorship
09/13/2021

This week Evan and Joe discuss the pending end of Britney Spears' conservatorship and a revisit on Defund the Police

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73 - HELP WANTED
09/07/2021

This week Evan and Joe dive into the Jeopardy hosting drama and the pending cut in federal pandemic unemployment insurance enhanced benefits

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Best Of - Why We Are Polarized
08/30/2021

This week we’re looking back at one of our best episodes from the past, when Evan and Joe discussed Ezra Klein’s book “Why We Are Polarized”

As always if you have any thoughts or insights don’t be afraid to email us at podcast@adequatelyinformed.com and recommend us to your friends

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72 - Worse Than We Thought
08/23/2021

This week Evan and Joe take on two topics that are areas where things are going worse than we would have thought. We start off exploring the current state of the movie industry through the lense of Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit over profit sharing. Then we go into an exploration of the fall of the Afghan Republic at the hands of the Taliban.

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71 - The Malice in the Planet
08/16/2021

This week Evan and Joe talk Netflix's new documentary "Untold: Malice in the Palace" and the IPCC's new report on the climate.

The Game the NFL wants you to for get:
https://youtu.be/wk6NKmFP0pE

David Roberts Substack:
https://www.volts.wtf/

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70 - Max Vax Fax
08/09/2021

This week Evan and Joe discuss the COVID -19 vaccine, the history of vaccines, and vaccine hesitancy.

Vaccines: A Measured Response
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc

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69 - Biles and Biden Both Withdraw
08/02/2021

This week Joe and Evan discuss Simone Biles withdrawing from events at the Tokyo Olympics and Biden withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.

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68 - Community Risk: A New Era
07/25/2021

This week Evan and Joe discuss how COVID is effecting the Olympics and what's going on with the Delta Variant

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67 - The Cuban Lotus
07/19/2021

This week Evan and Joe discuss HBO's new series "The White Lotus" and what's going on in Cuba

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66 - Critical Britney Theory
07/06/2021

This week Evan and Joe try out a slightly different show format. We start by talking about the ongoing story about Britney Spears and her restrictive conservatorship. Then after that we go into Critical Race Theory, a line of academic thinking that is benign in it's own right but has began to become the boogey man for talking about race in any way.

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65 - Just Say No? NO!
06/28/2021

This week Evan talks about "Who I Smoke", Joe talks about the Netflix Documentary "Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy". Then the two respond to a listener's question, talk the Cheerleader Supreme Court Case, and the new season of Rick and Morty. It's a Classic Adequately Informed episode.

Evan's Piece about Rick and Morty
http://www.midwesternperspective.com/2018/03/if-dan-harmon-hates-toxic-rick-and.html?fbclid=IwAR3WrFGAYcOSS-cQZoO4cmEEctJDZNlv4CFzB3DXeYsakRNa5jZLzlyvVJI

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64 - Where is the Community?
06/21/2021

This week Evan and Joe talk about finding community, inspired by the communities in Mare of Eastown and In The Heights. They then discuss rewatching old media and how amazing holidays are.

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63 - A Little Bit of Something, Some of the Time
06/13/2021

This week Evan discusses Bo Burnham's new special "Inside" and Joe explores representation in relation to Mare of Easttown

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62 - The Big Lie
05/31/2021

This week Evan and Joe talk about the Big Lie and what it means in our current political landscape

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61 - The Israel/Palestine Conflict
05/24/2021

This week Evan and Joe do a one topic special on the Israel/Palestine Conflict. We hope to give you a background on the conflict going all the way back and our thoughts on the conflict in the present.

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60 - Golden Globes and Sugar Free
05/17/2021

This week the two do some follow up, Evan talks Golden Globes, and Joe provides an update on his ongoing fight with sugar

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59 - One Weird Supreme Court Case
05/10/2021

This week Evan talks about a current Supreme Court case that isn't clear cut, and Joe rambles just generally going into new territory that the podcast has never gone before!

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58 - Is Twitter Good? It's complicated!
05/03/2021

This week Evan presents some musings on social media and Joe does a lecture on the current state of the restaurant industry labor market

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57 - Think Subtraction
04/26/2021

This week Evan discusses a study on how humans add complexity to solve problems while Joe shares some thoughts on victimhood.

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56 - Nomadland and Nonesland
04/19/2021

This week Evan gives a preview of the Oscars and Joe does a book review of The Nones by Ryan P. Burge

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55 - The College and Culture Wars
04/12/2021

This week Evan a Joe discuss the documentary Operation Varsity Blues and the current state of the Culture Wars

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54 - Fears of Inflations and Reparations
03/29/2021

This week Evan talks a new program in Evanston attempting reparations, and Joe rambles on about inflation

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53 - Finite and Infinite Games
03/22/2021

This week Evan and Joe discuss the reality tv show Survivor and an interesting position paper about infrastructure in the United States.

Paper: https://www.niskanencenter.org/report-so-you-want-to-do-an-infrastructure-project/

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52 - It's Tough, We Don't Know!
03/15/2021

This week Evan and Joe discuss the hazing death in Bowling Green and a follow up to the George Floyd and Jacob Blake incidents from last year

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51 - Just Give People Money
03/08/2021

This week Evan and Joe explore giving people money. This is not a discussion of the book of a similar title by Annie Lowry, but is of themes reminiscent of the book. This discussion is about the results of a UBI experiment in Stockton and the COVID relief bill that just passed the Senate and will likely become law.

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50 - Covid is actually getting better
03/01/2021

This week Evan and Joe talk Covid, the relief bill, and lightly hit on the coupe in Myanmar.

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49 - To Sum This Up
02/22/2021

This week Evan and Joe discuss the conversation had by Ezra Klein and Heather McGhee had about her book, "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together." We then use that to springboard into a broader conversation on race, building on what we discussed last week. And then we answer listener questions

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48 - The Color of Law
02/08/2021

This week Evan and Joe discuss the book "Color of Law" by Richard Rothstein, an exploration of the extent of housing discrimination in 20th century and how it has effects even today

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47 - What to do about small towns
02/01/2021

Evan and Joe are back this week discussing why small towns used to have economic uses and why it's changed, often using Galesburg IL as the prism at which to look at the issue. Also due to connection issues the conversation is cut short so we will get to the listener questions that we have accumulated next time. HOpefully on a weekly schedule.

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46 - The Insurrection Attempt
01/11/2021

Evan and Joe discuss the recent attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol building and the vaccine rollout

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