Mon. 06/15 - New Pandemic Solution: Just Print Your Own Money

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Society & Culture, Science, Tech News

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The Kentucky tattoo shop fighting back against extremism. A small town in Washington that has straight up decided to start printing their own money. The science behind why heroes tend to downplay their heroic acts. And the dads who keep making and racing pinewood derby cars long after their kids graduate from Cub Scouts. Sponsors: BetterHelp, Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/REPORT FitBod, Get one month free at Fitbod.me/goodnews Links: A Kentucky tattoo shop is offering to cover up hate and gang symbols for free (CNN) Erasing Hate (Trailer) (YouTube) Why a small town in Washington is printing its own currency during the pandemic (The Hustle) Wooden Money Press, Tenino, Washington (David Paul, YouTube) Heroes tend to downplay their actions and new psychology research might explain why (PsyPost) Meet the dads who can’t quit pinewood derby racing—even after their kids are over it (PopSci) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.7	Welcome to the good news ride home for Monday, June 15th, 2020.
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0:42.3	The Kentucky Tattoo Shop fighting back against extremism.
0:46.8	A small town in Washington that has straight up decided to start printing their own money.
0:51.2	The science behind why heroes tend to downplay their heroic
0:56.1	acts, and the dads who keep making and racing Pinewood Derby cars long after their kids graduate
1:03.6	from Cub Scouts. Tattoo artists at the Gallery X Art Collective in Murray, Kentucky have started a new service that they say is their contribution to Black Lives Matter and the fight against racial injustice.
1:18.3	They're offering free cover-up tattoos for hate and gang symbols.
1:23.5	Ryan King, one of the artists behind the initiative, told CNN, quote,
1:26.9	A lot of people when they were, just didn't know any better,
1:30.3	and were left with mistakes on their bodies.
1:32.6	We just want to make sure everybody has a chance to change.
1:36.0	One of the people we got was a man with both of his forearms
1:38.9	completely covered in hate symbols, absolutely everywhere.
1:42.7	How is this man going to interact with society with the
1:45.1	mistakes he made 10, 15, 20 years ago? We also got a guy with a giant swastika who said he has
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