March 2021

The March 2021 edition of the World’s Only Podcast is here to bring the top news as Silby and Ian give you their own unfiltered and congenial feedback. This episode the boys discuss r/WallStreetBets, national infrastructure after the Texas power failure, the state of democracy in the world, and who get’s into the hall of fame.

Be sure to read more about the topics Ian and Silby discussed: 

• Can Anything Stop GameStop?

• GameStop short-seller down 30% this year gets $2.8 billion bailout from the firms of billionaire investors Steve Cohen and Ken Griffin

• This Hedge Fund Made $700 Million on GameStop

• Iron Man 2 1080p - If you could make God bleed

• The Verge - Google Salvaged Robin Hood’s one star rating

• Observer - Chris Roberts: Reddit’s revolution hits a sad, rigged reality

• Market Insider - SEC hunting down possible market manipulation in Reddit-driven trading frenzy

• The resegregation of America

• John Oliver on School Segregation in the South vs. The North

• 50 years after Fair Housing Act, New York City still struggles with residential segregation

• Houston Chronicle - what went wrong with the Texas power grid?

• Texas Tribune - Texas leaders failed to heed warnings that left the state’s power grid vulnerable

• WSJ - Texas Electric Bills were $28 billion higher under deregulation

• Scientific American - Massive Power Failute Could Finally Cause Texas to Connect with Nation’s power grid

• New York Mag - America’s brittle infrastructure

• Amnesty strips Alexei Navalny of 'prisoner of conscience' status

• Why democracy failed in the Middle East

• The Arab world: Tethered By History

• What Myanmar’s coup could mean for the Rohingya and other persecuted minorities

• Buddhists Go to Battle: When Nationalism Overrides Pacifism

• America Is Not ‘Back.’ And Americans Should Not Want It to Be.

• BBC - Poisoned Russian leader held after returning home

• Atlantic - Is Aleksei Navalny a liberal or a nationalist?

• Moscow Times - True Beliefs and Opportunism

• Economist - Aung San Suu Kyi’s party declares victory

• NYT - In Tunisia, some wonder if the revolution was worth it

• No one elected to Baseball Hall of Fame; Curt Schilling requests removal from writers' ballot

• Curt Schilling's Hall of Fame case: Post-retirement controversies meet special career

• Yankees: Reggie Jackson destroys Curt Schilling over Hall of Fame snub and ‘freedom of speech’

• Hall of Fame Has Always Made Room for Infamy

• ESPN - background on Hope Solo assault allegations

• Sportscasting - Hope Solo’s career will always be marred by her Domestic Violence Case

• Detroit Metro Times - 103 years ago, Ty Cobb attacked a fan

• Sports Illustrated - Curt Schilling Hall of Fame debate

You can follow Silby on Twitter at @Silby_Says and Ian at @IRLibrarian.

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