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Is your phone more valuable to you than your car?

This week Shannon and Mike actually play nice on not the nicest of topics: homosexuality dooming Catholicism, who’s fault is it that you don’t (and maybe never will) have benefits and discussing if merely discussing pedophilia should result in the loss of your job.

We also ask if you are paying for journalism since pay walls were introduced, the relevance of traditional morning shows and what you would choose between: your car or your phone.

SUM OF THIS

Is homosexuality the Catholic Church’s ticking time bomb?

Half of GTA residents in precarious jobs (new landmark report from the United Way)ld

Tom Flanagan has lost all his jobs after his defense of looking at child pornography. Is that just?
FOLLOW UP

NPR feature on “The Magazine” – How to start a magazine & make a profit

Globe & Mail paywalls seem to working

WEEK IN REVIEW

Person: Donna Grantis
Lesson: Beards keep you healthy and handsome
Reckless: World’s most embarrassing Mom (calls Peruvian gov’t to find backpacking son)
Web Find: This American Life spends 5 months in Chicago’s Harper High
Imagining if Sasha and Malia had a Vlog
Song: Miguel – Candles In The Sun (new video)

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03 Mar 2013

2) Is this video “parody” on first world problems genius or ridiculous?

Here’s a question do white journalists hog technology? Is pitchfork racist or does K-OS’ crazy genius just straight crazy in the journalistic world? And stay tuned for a recent study that proves that pot, although natural, is infact awful!

We are back this week with a new picture, new audio, a new theme song but the same ol good natured squabbling. We discuss whether you feel bad about having first world problems and if you don’t would you feel bad if an African child narrated them? Huh? Huh!? And just in time for Valentine’s Day, Facebook introduces a new app where you can locate friends who are DTF. Of course Mike snuck in some nerdy debates about Toronto transit and on other nerdy white tech guys (like himself).

We also give props to Kareem Abdul Jabar for being our new fav columnist, the Kroll Show for creating the best Degrassi/ Canadian culture spoof and J. Dilla for being cooler than Jesus in the midst of a snow storm.

This is The Sum Up, tell your friends and lose a couple by saying some reckless things in the name of good debate.

Sum of This/ None of That

1) Facebook has a new app called Bang your friends? Are you down with that?

3) Are you for or against road tolls for Ontario/GTA?

4) Is tech journalism dominated by white men?

5) Does Pitchfork have a race problem or does K-OS need to head back to sixth grade english?

FOLLOW UP

1. CBC steals our idea again, “Generation Jobless“…

2. “Ethnically Neutral” money gets even weirder:

The Best of the Week

Person: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Lesson: See pot IS bad for you
Web Find: The Kroll Show – Wheels Ontario
Wreckless: Hacker gains access to Bush family emails, finds GW Bush self-portrait in the shower
Song: Yancey Boys (Dilla & Illa J) – The Throwaway

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11 Feb 2013

1. Is it wrong for other singers (Keyshia Cole) to criticize other singers? Last night at the superbowl she accused Michelle Williams for “fucking up the vibe”and was met with an army of angry tweeters. Was she wrong for voicing her negative opinion?

LOTS of debate this week…even where you may not have even wanted it. We discuss whether other artists are allowed to point out what a useless, non-factor Michelle was in the Super Bowl performance; Whether a 3 day weekend is a good idea; The future and current role of multi-culturalism; also we pontificate whether men should write features on women…Surprisingly Mike thinks no and Shannon says BRING ON THE SEXIST BAD WRITING!

Speaking of drooling Shannon endorses Kathleen Wynne and Mike goes on and on about Foreign Exchange and as per usuale, despite our best efforts, Obama did something that deserved props. This is the most conversational Sum Up to date, let us know what you think!

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SUM OF THIS/NONE OF THAT

2. Africa’s poorest nation wants a 4-day work week. Is this a social blessing or economic disaster?

3. Is multi-culturalism dead?

4. In light of Esquire’s drooling cover story on Megan Fox…Should men write about women?

FOLLOW UP

Remember the whole scientology advert drama in the Atlantic? Well there has been new standards put in place for sponsored content guidelines

Remember how we spent an entire episode with Taha complaining about Instagram narcissism? Well CBC apparently listened and stole our topic…yea we know, we were the first

Remember the Taliban shooting of the teenage Pakistani girl? Well she is alive and still fighting with each day looking better than the last.

YEAHx5

Person of the week: Eve Pell “The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap” (very hard not to love this story)
Kathleen Wynne

Lesson of the week: Your biggest carbon sin may be air travel

Web Find of the week: Volkswagon commercial And BONUS from Disney

Reckless of the week: Israel giving clandestine birth control to Ethiopian immigrants

Song of the week: Foreign Exchange, So What if it is

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05 Feb 2013

Beyoncé + Terry Richardson =/= feminism. Is Beyonce’s spread at all appealing?
Read the rebuttal

On this week’s show we discuss how far athletes willing to go to maintain grand fictitious hero narratives? Speaking of fictitious heroes… Beyonce’s new GQ cover teaches us that you can’t spell class or crass without the word ass, so there should be no difference. And a bit of advice from us here on The Sum Up, if you’re writing about rape best to use the phrase sexual assault and not “gaining a penis.”

We also discuss how the Lance Armstrong case isn’t much different from the Manti T’eO catfish tale and we debate whether people who don’t pay for subscriptions have any right to tell publications how they should advertise.

Still not sure if you should listen? We debate suicides in prison, complain about the flu and bash the new BET show, Second Generation Wayans. Oh now you wanna tune in? Yea we thought so… Speaking of thoughts don’t forget to share your two cents!

Need to do some additional reading? We got you covered

Some of this/ none of that

Should correctional officers intervene with inmate suicides?

Scientology sponsored content on the Atlantic/ OLG content in the Globe. Is brand journalism a problem we have the right to fight against?
Athletes like Lance and Manti have gone through great lengths and told huge lies in order to play the hero. Do you think that they are terrible people? Is it an unforgivable crime to you?

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Person: Aaron Swartz, founder of Reddit
Recklessness: The Wayans show
Web find: Worst lead of all time
Lesson: Kevin Drum in Mother Jones on the correlation between lead & crime
Song: Oscar D’Leon, LLoraras

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21 Jan 2013

Al Jazeera buys Current TV, creates Al Jazeera America. Cable companies drop network. Weak?

SPOILER ALERT: Is marriage becoming increasingly a niche cultural practice? (Maybe.) Is Django appropriate? (Kind of.) Do you know a rapist? (Yes.) Are the trades right for you? (Definitely.) Is AC Milan’s Kevin-Prince Boateng the man? (Ci!) Also, hide your children ’cause Al Jazeera’s coming to America!

This is The Sum Up, listen and let us know what you think

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Sum of this none of that

Do only whites and Asians place a high importance on marriage?

Django: Slavery in the white male imagination

MAIN TOPIC Why rape still needs to be a discussion

The Steubenville Rape Crew

http://localleaks.blogs.ru

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio.html?pagewanted=all&_r=3&

YEAH x5

Person: Kevin-Prince Boateng (AC Milan player)
Reckless: My great-great grandfather
Lesson: The new workforce
Web Find: Spoiler Alert (Portlandia)
Song: Azealia Banks

09 Jan 2013

1. Cold-FX proven to only work (barely) in 1 in 17 cases. Do you trust unscientific remedies?

We reveal what country’s men have the weakest swimmers. And by swimmers we mean semen. Speaking of bodily fluids, ever used Cold FX? Well if so you are probably not the 1 in 17 people it is actually proven to do anything for. Plus it’s the last day of the year so let’s all pretend we paid attention to anything else other than our Facebooks with our sophisticated year in review! We also discuss why blasting the NRA is as useful as shooting fruit flies and we ponder whether or not it’s ever cool to give someone tips on how not to suck (in the bad way) sexually. So what are you waiting for? Join Shannon Boodram and Mike Warren on an adventurous hour long chat about the cool and current shit you should be up on.

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SUM OF THIS/NONE OF THAT

2. Down with Big Gun? Are we paying too much attention to the nra

3. Have you ever told sexual partners how to improve on their performance?

Yeah x5

PERSON:
Chief Theresa Spence (of the Idle No More movement)

LESSON:
French men have less sperm

RECKLESS:
Music Industry caught faking billions of youtube hits

WEB FIND:
New York Times Avalanche story

SONG:
Taylor Swift, I Almost Do

31 Dec 2012

1. When it comes to adult sexuality, are we actually under-sharing?

This week we talk about why Shannon and Mike are unemployed… the shitty state of the journalism industry. We also have a special (employed) guest Anupa, a freelance writer and associate producer at the CBC to help us out with this. In addition Mike tries to explain why he co-signs for Trinidad James, a lovely gentleman who loves ratchet bitches and gold. But wait there is more: is blackface santa okay with you, apparently for the Dutch it is! Do you think the radio hosts who pranked the nurse that committed suicide crossed a line? When it comes to sex, do adults under-share? We also finally get around to talking about Rob Ford being asked to leave his Mayoral chair, we play the BEST rendition of Rudolph you have ever heard and finally Shannon shares the most grotesque bus tale that resulted in one of her fav quotes of the year: you must be the moral authority of your own mind.

This is The Sum Up an hour of entertaining banter on controversial and conversational net finds:

Need to do some additional reading?

SUM OF THIS/ NONE OF THAT

2. Should a line be drawn when it comes to radio/TV pranking?

3. Is Black Pete maybe just a tiny bit racist?

MAIN TOPIC

“The Future of Journalism”, some related reads:

Paywalls, paywalls, paywalls
Self-Publishing for Profit
The Daily goes belly-up
Vice embeds journalists with fugitive McAfee, inadvertently gets him arrested

YEAH X5

Person: The last Modernist, architect Oscar Niemeyer passes away at 104
Lesson: Rob Ford’s lesson on entitlement, conflict of interest and the law?
Reckless: I want to hear your story about the guy on the bus caught with his pants off.
Web: Find DMX’s Rudolph rendition
Song: Trinidad James, all gold everything

Missed an old podcast? Get caught up!

09 Dec 2012

2. Do more people in Canada need to have binders full of women? Read TVO’s explanation why this may be a good idea?

Our main topic this week is Internet narcissism: With the current top sites being mostly about self interest: Facebook, twitter, Instagram. Do people only go online to read about themselves? And do you think there is an issue with people taking so many selfy photos?

To join us for this topic is Instagram all-star and an old familiar voice to The Sum Up: Taha! Yes our fav witty nutbar is back as we also discuss whether Israel’s live tweets on their Gaza attacks are awful or advantageous. Also in light of the Patreus scandal, we want to know if you would stay with a cheating spouse and is having a binder full of women really such a bad thing or is it a valiant equality model? And if that’s not enough good discussion for you: Elmo’s wild week, Ireland’s abortion law, the new Grand Theft Auto and once again we obsess over Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, Mad City.

This is The Sum Up

And if you need to do some additional reading…

Sum of This/None of That

1. Israel i s live-tweeting its attacks on Hamas (and they’re tweeting back). Also check out these photos of soldiers flaunting their guns on their Instagrams

3. Would you stay with a cheating spouse? Holly Petraeus hasn’t announced any plans to divorce her husband, would you do anything different if you were in her shoes?

Yeah x5

Person: Kevin Clash, puppeteer behind Elmo, vindicated of statutory rape allegations
Reckless: Hindu woman denied abortion in Irish hospital & dies
Lesson: Parkinson’s Patients able to ride a bike
Web Find: Grand Theft Auto V trailer (if you’ll allow me to geek out)
Kendrick Lamar: Real

Missed an episode of the Sum Up? Get Caught up!!

Next week…the Internet and its recent rise in encouraging narcissism featuring Taha!

19 Nov 2012