News Items Podcast with John Ellis and Rebecca Darst

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In which John Heilemann talks with John Ellis and Rebecca Darst, co-hosts of "News Items Podcast," a new daily show from The Recount. "News Items Podcast" is based on the influential "News Items" daily newsletter founded and run by Ellis, a longtime veteran of the news business. Both the podcast and newsletter focus on three big topic areas, with occasional forays into a fourth: (1) World in Disarray; (2) Financialization of Everything; (3) Advances in Science and Technology; (4) Electoral politics in the US and around the world. On this special episode of Hell & High Water, Heilemann, Ellis, and Darst discuss these topics, including the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic in India; the importance of crypto currencies such as Bitcoin and their potential effects on the global economy; the forces shaping this moment in American politics, from Joe Biden's ambitious agenda to the trajectory of Fox News; and the massive near-term impacts of the arrival of quantum computing and rapid progress on artificial intelligence. They also mull over recent research suggesting that too little sleep may lead to dementia, with Ellis comforting Heilemann—who, if the research is right, is in serious trouble—with the news that, by the time he reaches seventy, there will likely be a drug that cures Alzheimer's. (Phew.) Subscribe to “News Items Podcast with John Ellis” here: http://recount.co/NewsItemsPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, John Hyalman here and welcome to Hell on High Water, my podcast from the
0:18.5	recount and I Heart Radio, with big ups to the one and only Rizza for our dope theme
0:22.8	music.
0:23.8	We have got a very special episode for you today in which I'm going to introduce you
0:28.0	to the co-hosts of the news items podcast, a new member of the recount family of pods.
0:33.9	News items is our first daily title, a new installment drops every Monday through Thursday
0:38.2	at 5.30pm and then at the same time on Friday there's an extended cut of one of the interviews
0:43.5	from the show earlier in the week.
0:45.4	Now I know you're thinking, thanks for all that programming info, J-H, and I get a sense
0:50.6	that the news items podcast is probably about, like, you know, news.
0:55.2	What kind of news precisely and what makes it different from all the other news related
0:59.2	podcasts out there?
1:01.1	Those are good questions and I will answer them momentarily.
1:04.6	But first, let's meet the co-hosts of the news items podcast, starting with its presiding
1:09.9	genius, the guy who founded and runs the news items newsletter on which the news items
1:16.1	podcast is based.
1:18.4	That would be John Alice.
1:19.8	The state of the news is it's never been better and it has rarely been worse.
1:27.0	The other co-host of the podcast is a sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued, super smart journalist with
1:31.5	a particular expertise in the world of finance, but whose insights range widely across all
1:37.0	the fields that the news items podcast covers.
1:40.2	That would be Rebecca Darsd.
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