6/25 HR 2: Laura Ingalls Wilder controversy/Duluth gets a bad rap from rolling Stone Mag/70k golf balls found? What!

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🗓️ 24 June 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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It is very hard to believe that librarians want to take Laura Ingalls Wilder books off of the shelf, due to some of her language in the books that she wrote. Librarians are at the forefront of the Mystery! A Rolling Stone reporter rips Duluth for hosting President Trump. A guy finds more than 70k golf balls over the course of a lifetime. Joe admires this for sure.

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0:00.0	Music
0:06.0	Last night, two bells, ten, add to it.
0:11.0	Ten, ten, he's going in.
0:13.0	Jokes to today.
0:16.0	I've received many emails regarding the Laura Ingalls Wilder situation.
0:22.0	Yeah.
0:23.0	Including one from Majafu writes,
0:25.0	we need a category that is more than the end of the world.
0:28.0	It's almost over or I just wasn't made for these times.
0:31.0	We need a, I can't make this stuff up fast enough category.
0:35.0	He was among many e-mailers who were alarmed.
0:39.0	I've told you, librarians are on the front line of the mystery.
0:43.0	Right?
0:44.0	For decades, I would say.
0:46.0	You've been saying that.
0:48.0	A division of the American Library Association is removing author Laura Ingalls Wilder's Wilder.
0:54.0	It's a prestigious children's book award because of her portrayal of minorities,
1:02.0	specifically blacks and Native Americans in the best-selling classic books.
1:06.0	According to the association's website, the board of the association for library service to children,
1:14.0	unanimously decided to change the name of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal to the Children's Literature Legacy Award.
1:23.0	The decision came Saturday at a meeting in New Orleans.
1:27.0	The association for library service to children said that Wilder includes expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with the organizations,
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