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Welcome to GPL’s Season 2 Episode 2!
👉🏽 This daily podcast is free, but if you’d like, please buy Jalon some coffee. She can’t do these newsletters and podcasts without it! (Seriously).
In This Episode…
We are testing out a new format! There’s a lot of stuff happening in the world than elections (if you can imagine that). So while we rest up from this exhausting primary, let’s crash out on other things together! Yay!
Citing Our Sources
GPL News
Starbucks South Korea head fired after ‘Tank Day’ promotion sparks public uproar
How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea
South Korea’s Starbucks to shut for staff history lesson after backlash
Starbucks Korea sacks CEO over controversial ‘Tank Day’ promotion
Old Photos Evoke the Chaos of South Korea’s 1980 Unrest
The Interview
We have sat down with Jermaca several times for our podcast and something keeps holding us back on posting them. The first one was pre election 2024 where we all sounded so…optimistic. By the time it would have dropped it would have been after the election. And that wasn’t the vibe.
Then we chatted again right after the 2024 election, before she moved to DC to work for Rep. Julie Johnson (we have a bit of that convo in this episode.)
Then we chatted during the last government shutdown. Right before the maps happened, the primary happened, and runoffs happened.
We sprinkle in some of our older convos and then we catch Jermaca right before folks get a chance to vote for her.
2026 Texas Democratic Convention
Culture Corner
Joey and her teens went to NYC at possibly the best time to ever be in NYC.
New Yorkers Waited 53 Years for This. Time to Celebrate.
In photos: The Knicks celebrate their first NBA championship in more than 50 years
Messi, Haaland, Mbappé, Kane: Who will be the World Cup’s top scorer?
Scotland fans descend on Boston for World Cup, bars struggling to keep up
He’s Here. He’s There. He’s Every (redacted) where. He’s Mayor Mamdani
Stock Is Going Up on Jalens/Jalons/Jaylins/Jaylons!
Now. Where is my parade?
Bella DeCosta Green
The true story of a famed librarian and the secret she guarded closely
Crash Out Corner
Please stop trying to convince us Don Snoreleon is not sleeping everywhere. Please. We see him sleeping. In front of y’all.
What We’re Reading
Lone Star State of Mind: Snapshots of Texas Today
Secret Memos Reveal Stephen Miller’s Disturbing Eagerness to Destroy Our Constitutional Rights
Cape Verde do it again. World Cup debutants stun Uruguay to take big step towards knockout stage
Stolen Picasso Discovered During French Drug Bust
No, I Don’t Want to Watch Your Straight Hockey Show
The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance
What We’re Watching
That’s it for this episode! Thanks for listening and subscribing...and sharing!!!
Reminder for everyone: Please check your voter’s registration every month until the election this November. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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Your Moments Of Zen
Election 2026
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