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BYM, baby. This week, Greg interviews Taylor Barnes, a field reporter with Ink Stick Media who focuses on military affairs and the defense industry. In her work, she uncovered a connection about how the LDS Church, known for its humanitarian focus, has quietly invested in defense giant Northrop Grumman through its multibillion-dollar fund, Ensign Peak Advisors. Greg is here to talk to Taylor about that reporting. You can find Taylor's excellent piece here: Cracks in the Sin Screen: The Link Between Mormon Tithes and Nuclear Weapons

In OT, we have an IATSE panel highlighting new organizing at Marvel, Disney, and the video game industry. Taylor Barnes talks to us about some of her recent reporting AND MORE✦ ABOUT ✦The Valley Labor Report is the only union talk radio show in Alabama, elevating struggles for justice and fairness on the job, educating folks about how they can do the same, and bringing relevant news to workers in Alabama and beyond.Our single largest source of revenue is our listeners so your support really matters and helps us stay on the air!Make a one time donation or become a monthly donor on our website or patreon:https://www.tvlr.fmhttps://www.patreon.com/thevalleylabo...Visit our official website for more info on the show, membership, our sponsors, merch, and more: https://www.tvlr.fmFollow TVLR on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheValleyLab...Follow TVLR on Twitter: @LaborReportersFollow Jacob on Twitter: @JacobM_ALFollow TVLR Co-Creator David Story on Twitter: @RadiclUnionist✦ CONTACT US ✦Our phone number is 844-899-TVLR (8857), call or text us live on air, or leave us a voicemail and we might play it during the show!✦ OUR ADVERTISERS KEEP US ON THE AIR! ✦Support them if you can.The attorneys at MAPLES, TUCKER, AND JACOB fight for working people. Let them represent you in your workplace injury claim.Website: https://www.mtandj.com Phone: (855) 617-9333The MACHINISTS UNION represents workers in several industries including healthcare, the defense industry, woodworking, and more. Website: https://www.iamaw44.orgPhone: (256) 286-3704Email: organize@iamaw44.orgDo you need good union laborers on your construction site, or do you want a union construction job? Reach out to the IRONWORKERS LOCAL 477. Website: https://www.ironworkers477.orgPhone: (256) 383-3334 (Jeb Miles)Email: local477@bellsouth.netThe NORTH ALABAMA DSA is looking for folks to work for a better North Alabama, fighting for liberty and justice for all.Email: dsanorthalabama@gmail.comIBEW LOCAL 136 is a group of over 900 electricians and electrical workers providing our area with the finest workforce in the construction industry. You belong here. Website: https://www.ibew136.org Phone: (205) 833-0909IFPTE - We are engineers, scientists, nonprofit employees, technicians, lawyers, and many other professions who have joined together to have a greater voice in our careers. With over 80,000 members spread across the U.S. and Canada, we invite you and your colleagues to consider the benefits of engaging in collective bargaining.Website: https://www.ifpte.orgPhone: (202) 239-4880THE HUNTSVILLE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD is a union open to any and all working people. Call or email them today to begin organizing your workplace - wherever it is. Website: https://www.hsviww.orgPhone: (256) 651-6707Email: organize@hsviww.orgENERGY ALABAMA is accelerating Alabama's transition to sustainable energy. We are a nonprofit membership-based organization that has advocated for clean energy in Alabama since 2014. Our work is based on three pillars: education, advocacy, and technical assistance.Website: https://www.alcse.orgPhone: (256) 812-1431Email: dtait@energyalabama.orgThe Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union represents in a wide range of industries, including but not limited to retail, grocery stores, poultry processing, dairy processing, cereal processing, soda bottlers, bakeries, health care, hotels, manufacturing, public sector workers like crossing guards, sanitation, and highway workers, warehouses, building services,  and distribution. Website: https://www.rwdsu.infoThe American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union proudly representing 700,000 federal and D.C. government workers nationwide and overseas.Website: https://www.afge.orgAre you looking for a better future, a career that can have you set for life, and to be a part of something that's bigger than yourself? Consider a skilled trades apprenticeship with the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.Website: https://www.iupat.orgUnionly is a union-focused company created specifically to support organized labor. We believe that providing online payments should be simple, safe, and secure.Website: https://www.unionly.ioHometown Action envisions inclusive, revitalized, and sustainable communities built through multiracial working class organizing and leadership development at the local and state level to create opportunities for all people to thrive.Website: https://www.hometownaction.orgMembers of IBEW have some of the best wages and benefits in North Alabama. Find out more and join their team today! Website: https://www.ibew558.org ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Conversations about downsizing America's defense budget almost immediately stall out in a Catch-22: Reallocating those tax dollars to invest in domestic priorities would be devastating to the many small cities where a manufacturing plant, ICBM silo, or military base is the lifeblood of the local economy. If Biden begins to shift some money away from defense, or even just, away from some of the big weapons systems a lot of defense towns are tasked to build, does that mean a whole lot of middle-class jobs might get cut? What if there's a better option? One that fits more closely with Biden's plans for the middle class? GUESTS: Natalie Click, PhD student at Arizona State University; Taylor Barnes, Journalist; Miriam Pemberton, Institute for Policy Studies ADDITIONAL READING: From Arms to Renewables: How Workers in This Southern Military Industrial Hub Are Converting the Economy, Taylor Barnes, Southerly Magazine. ‘Honk for Humane Jobs': NC Activists Challenge Subsidies for Weapons Maker, Taylor Barnes, Facing South. Let's Turn Our Military Resources To Building a Post-COVID Industrial Base for All Americans, Miriam Pemberton, Newsweek. Study Says Domestic, Not Military Spending, Fuels Job Growth, Brown University. How Much More Expensive Can the F-35 Actually Get? Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics. ** This episode was originally published on August 30, 2021.

Taylor Barnes–Fallon 9-15-2022

Shehera Mocellin and Taylor Barnes join us on today's episode. Shehera is a qualified Nutrition and Holistic Health Coach who helps people discover their inner strength to recover from physical, mental, and emotional ailments. She assists people in rediscovering their pleasure and magic to harmonize their hearts and actions and reclaim their path to purpose. Taylor Barnes has been engrossed in music since his grandfather taught him how to play the guitar when he was a toddler. When he discovered the didgeridoo, his love of music and sound grew. His connection to this spiritual instrument was immediate, as Taylor learned to play after borrowing one for a few months from a friend. Soon after, he began playing with friends during yoga sessions and performed at Bhakti and Shakti Fest alongside Larisa Stow and the Shakti Tribe, as well as other sound healers. He hosts sound healing events and collaborates with other healers across California when he isn't playing with musicians, and he uses sound and vibrations to help people with neurological diseases. Shehera's website: https://anahataholistichealing.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sheheramocellin/ Taylor's website: https://taylorbarnes.net/ Instagram: @taylorbarnes

Taylor Barnes / Co-Founder of CentricsIT, Senior Vice President of Global Business Solutions Taylor W. Barnes, 41, is the Senior Vice President of Global Business Solutions and a founding partner at CentricsIT. Barnes co-founded CentricsIT in 2007 and has since helped the organization become one of the fastest-growing companies in Georgia and one of the top IT Solution Providers in North America. He currently manages global business solutions, responsible for charting and maintaining an aggressive revenue growth plan. CentricsIT services revenue has grown by 800% since Barnes assumed sales leadership responsibility over the segment in 2014. Barnes was in his early twenties when he formed CentricsIT with his partners. Barnes's company, CentricsIT, is one of the top global IT project management companies in the industry, with other offices in Toronto, Dubai, London, Prague, and Bucharest, and they're delivering services in over 100 countries. He is known amongst the global IT community for his gregarious personality and the indominable nature of his positive attitude. An eternal student, Barnes commits himself deeply to personal development. He describes his personal mission as, to use my knowledge and experience to help others realize their personal and professional potential. He is known amongst the global IT community for his gregarious personality and the indominable nature of his positive attitude. An eternal student, Barnes commits himself deeply to personal development. He describes his personal mission as, to use my knowledge and experience to help others realize their personal and professional potential. One of the most personally rewarding aspects of Barnes role, as he often shares, is his responsibility for leading sales training at CentricsIT. Each year, he puts together a 10-week intensive sales course that covers traditional sales methodologies with a special focus on personal development. By implementing lessons learned and knowledge gained from the time he commits to his own growth, Barnes strives to help his employees become the best versions of themselves. His approach has made a substantial impact on employee morale, which has strengthened the overall quality of CentricsIT customer service and service delivery. Barnes believes wholeheartedly that a positive company culture has a near-direct impact on revenue. As a member of the CentricsIT executive team, Barnes places a special focus on company culture. The organization is known to offer generous perks and unique benefits and was recently recognized among Atlanta's Top Workplaces by the Atlanta-Journal Constitution for the fifth time. The company also commits to volunteering and donating to local organizations through its corporate social responsibility arm, Centrics Cares. Barnes colleagues describe him as loyal, steadfast, positive, inspiring, purpose-driven, a servant leader, and a role model to all. He is husband to Brittany and father to Kellar and Cyrus. For info on Taylor, visit www.taylorbarnes.com https://youtu.be/x0FktYUdOy8 Ted Jenkin / Oxygen Financial (Host) Lee Heisman / Savant CTS (Host) Taylor Barnes / CentricsIT, Global Business Solutions (Guest)

Ever since World War II, the US economy has become increasingly reliant on the war industry to provide jobs. It was, in fact, World War II that converted our existing economy into one dependent on government spending from the Pentagon and its associated agencies and industries. But it is possible to convert the economy back the other way, from one centered on the war industry to one that generates good jobs while addressing the existential threats of the climate emergency, pandemics, and ecological devastation.In this panel discussion recorded on March 10, 2021, and organized by the War Industries Resisters Network (WIRN), panelists discuss the existential need to transition away from the war economy and the practical steps that would make it possible. (WIRN is a coalition of local groups and organizations across the US and around the world that are opposing their local war industries and collaborating to confront corporate control of US foreign policy.) With permission from the event organizers, we are sharing this recording with TRNN audiences.Panelists Include: Miriam Pemberton, founder of the Peace Economy Transitions Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, and author of the upcoming book Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies; David Story, a third-generation union member born and raised in Alabama, President of the Machinists & Aerospace Workers Union Local 44 in Decatur, Alabama, and a founding member of the Huntsville IWW; Taylor Barnes, an award-winning, multilingual investigative journalist based in Atlanta who covers military affairs and the defense industry, and whose work has been published in local and national media outlets, including Southerly Magazine, Facing South, Responsible Statecraft, and The Intercept. This panel is hosted by Ken Jones of Reject Raytheon Asheville, a local movement of activists and peacemakers who have come together to ensure that the economic development of Buncombe County relies not on incentives given to war profiteering multinational corporations, but rather on investments in a sustainable local economic model.Read the transcript of this panel: https://therealnews.com/a-just-transition-away-from-the-war-economy-and-military-industrial-complex-is-possiblePost-Production: Cameron GranadinoHelp us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer:Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-podSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/newsletter-podLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

Conversations about downsizing America's defense budget almost immediately stall out in a Catch-22: Reallocating those tax dollars to invest in domestic priorities would be devastating to the many small cities where a manufacturing plant, ICBM silo, or military base is the lifeblood of the local economy. If Biden begins to shift some money away from defense, or even just, away from some of the big weapons systems a lot of defense towns are tasked to build, does that mean a whole lot of middle class jobs might get cut? What if there's a better option? One that fits more closely with Biden's plans for the middle class? GUESTS: Natalie Click, PhD student at Arizona State University; Taylor Barnes, Journalist; Miriam Pemberton, Institute for Policy Studies ADDITIONAL READING: From Arms to Renewables: How Workers in This Southern Military Industrial Hub Are Converting the Economy, Taylor Barnes, Southerly Magazine. ‘Honk for Humane Jobs': NC Activists Challenge Subsidies for Weapons Maker, Taylor Barnes, Facing South. Let's Turn Our Military Resources To Building a Post-COVID Industrial Base for All Americans, Miriam Pemberton, Newsweek. Study Says Domestic, Not Military Spending, Fuels Job Growth, Brown University. How Much More Expensive Can the F-35 Actually Get? Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics.

Taylor Barnes  Senior Vice President of Global Business Solutions at  CentricsIT  In this episode of Your FIRST $100K Show, Joseph Warren is joined by Taylor Barnes to discuss The Sales Machine: 9 Simple Steps for Sales Leaders. Links: TaylorBarnes.com Subscribe:  Apple | Stitcher | iHeart IF YOU ENJOY OUR SHOW AND CONTENT, PLEASE CONSIDER BEING AN AMBASSADOR. WE ARE 100% LISTENER SUPPORTED. CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT Epic Resources:  BLOW UP ROCKS™ - THE THERAPY & COUNSELING ALTERNATIVE™  We believe addiction, anxiety, anger, and depression are "rocks" that weigh men down. Our mission is to help you blow them up.  BlowUpRocks.com Music: Purple-Planet.com

Taylor Barnes Senior Vice President of Global Business Solutions at  CentricsIT ($100M+ in Revenue) In this episode of Your FIRST $100K Show, Joseph Warren is joined by Taylor Barnes to discuss how he (and his partners) built a $100M+ business without grinding his life away. LinksCentricsIT.com ★ Subscribe Apple | Stitcher | iHeart IF YOU ENJOY OUR SHOW AND CONTENT, PLEASE CONSIDER BEING AN AMBASSADOR. WE ARE 100% LISTENER SUPPORTED. CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT Epic Resources! 1) Feeling Pinned Down In Your Business, Marriage, Parenting or Faith? Get Free Now: BlowUpRocks.com  2) FREE 10-Day Training for Christian Entrepreneurs, Coaches and Business Owners! Music: Purple-Planet.com

Life was good for Taylor and Brittany. Then 2014 came along. In that year, Taylor's mother died an early death, the lucrative deal to sell his business was derailed at the last minute, the marriage of their very closest friends fell apart, and their two-year old son was diagnosed with autism. There was only one way to get through all of this, and it had everything to do with a choice they made. Meet Taylor and Brittany: https://www.realfaithstories.com/guests/taylor-brittanybarnes Taylor's Website: https://taylorbarnes.com/ Special Guest: Taylor & Brittany Barnes.

Peter and Ryan welcome Taylor Barnes from @STYKDesign and Rowdy Keelor from @BrainBangShow to discuss the Virtual Show for Good to raise funds for amazing nonprofits, Fred Willard, Jerry Stiller, our least favorite bands, and h8rs of the podcast!

The curator of the Cage Match Project and host for this podcast, Ariel René Jackson, interviews Round 14 artist, Taylor Barnes, an Austin-based artist whose interdisciplinary fiber practice engages a research-based approach to internal and external complexities of her experience as a Black woman in America. Her current research in Barracoons utilizes wood, nails, and fiber to transform the cage into an enclosed shelter, complicating the notion of confinement and shifting meaning towards safety. We spoke about the possibilities and limitations of understanding the experience of enslaved Africans held in Barracoons before being boarding onto Atlantic slave ships–not knowing what tomorrow might bring. Relating this sense of not knowing to our reality of shelter-at-home, Barnes talks about the necessity to create in order to relieve anxiety and we chat about society’s seemingly psychic preparedness for social distancing via social media and cell phones. Between now and whenever the Austin area is relieved of social distancing, it is my intention to bring on individuals to speak further about notions of being confined but in the meantime enjoy the show! @cagematchproject @barnes_artistry__ @arielrenejacksonstudio --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cage-match-project/support

Darkness Remains by KC Luck Book Clips  Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet.  In this episode we hear the first chapter of the audiobook for Darkness Remains by KC Luck narrated by Violet Dixon   Synopsis  If the lights go out forever, can love survive? When a group of women from different walks of life are brought together by fate during the end of the world as they know it, each must find a way to survive against the odds as well as learn to rely on each other. Laura Kennedy finds herself without a home when part of the city of Astoria, Oregon burns after a solar storm causes a worldwide blackout. Left with few options, she resigns herself to living with her brother’s family and trying to get by while food and resources quickly diminish. As she begins to despair about the fate of the world, a handsome young stranger rides into her life and suddenly she finds herself attracted to a woman in a way she never expected … Sam. Sam Quinn is a veterinarian student when the power goes out everywhere. Believing everything happens for a reason, she decides to ride Northwest on her horse to explore the rapidly changing landscape in hopes of finding a place where she belongs. Instead, she encounters nothing but fear and unrest, or at least until she has an accident, and wakes up to meet a woman who wants nothing to do with her, but who Sam can’t stop thinking about … Laura. Taylor Barnes is an Army veteran who is happy to simply work on a farm outside of town, which she shares with her close friends. However, when the city of Astoria struggles to maintain order after the world goes dark, she suddenly finds herself thrust into a leadership role she never wanted. The only reason she agrees is so she can keep the world safe for the woman she loves … Jackie. Jackie Scott, once a powerful CEO, had the world at her fingertips but is now adrift in a new reality without any of the modern conveniences she once relied on. Living on her sister’s farm near the small town of Astoria, the only stability she can rely on is the one person who she is slowly learning to trust and, if she is willing to listen to her heart, maybe even love … Taylor. The end of the world is only the beginning.   Get This Book On Amazon -> https://amzn.to/2MprwXb (link works for Amazon US, UK, Germany, and Canada)    Get This Book On Amazon UK -> https://amzn.to/2P1w9Iu   Love What We Do? Become a Patron. You will get exclusive content and be helping us grow. https://www.patreon.com/TheLesbianTalkShow   KC Luck Online Website http://www.kc-luck.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kc.luckauthor.92 Twitter https://twitter.com/kc_luck_author   Amazon Author Page https://amzn.to/2OSkrzU    Contact The Lesbian Talk Show Website Email   You can find all our Book Clips episodes here    Authors Want to feature your novel on Book Clips? Check out more here www.sheenalemosebersohn.com/book-clip/

Darkness Falls by KC Luck Book Clips  Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet.  In this episode we hear the first chapter of the audiobook for Darkness Falls by KC Luck narrated by Violet Dixon   Synopsis  If the lights go out forever, can love survive? When four women from different walks of life are brought together by fate to witness the end of the world as they know it, each must find a way to survive against the odds as well as learn to rely on each other. Jackie Scott wields incredible influence as a magazine executive in Seattle. As she plans a smashing party for her fortieth birthday, everything is precisely as she wants it. But when a solar storm lights up the night sky in a dazzling display, it not only ruins the party but destroys power around the planet and Jackie must turn for help from the one woman she has tried so hard not to want … Taylor. Taylor Barnes is an Army veteran new to Seattle and wants nothing more than to find some peace and quiet working as a rent-a-cop in a corporate high-rise. When she is asked to attend the birthday party of the building's powerful and sexy CEO, she can hardly say no. Little did she realize every skill she ever learned would be put to the test to save the woman she can't seem to stop thinking about … Jackie. Anna Patten is a nurse practitioner who has returned one last time to the town she ran away from to pack up the house where she grew up. Trying to avoid any drama, she cannot get away fast enough, or so she tells herself while her heart wonders about her high school crush. When fate lands them together in Seattle at a birthday party, suddenly Anna must lean on the woman she once left behind … Lexi. Lexi Scott has built a simple life of writing novels and remodeling her farmhouse, but when she runs into a long-lost friend, her world is turned upside down. It's not until she attends her sister Jackie's birthday party that she is forced to not only face the apocalypse but now she must decide if she is willing to risk her heart again to save the only woman she ever loved ... Anna. The end of the world is only the beginning.   Get This Book On Amazon -> https://amzn.to/2IZJVI5 (link works for Amazon US, UK, Germany, and Canada)    Get This Book On Amazon UK -> https://amzn.to/2IUVC2r   Love What We Do? Become a Patron. You will get exclusive content and be helping us grow.   KC Luck Online Website http://www.kc-luck.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kc.luckauthor.92 Twitter https://twitter.com/kc_luck_author   Amazon Author Page https://amzn.to/2OSkrzU   Contact The Lesbian Talk Show Website Email   You can find all our Book Clips episodes here    Authors Want to feature your novel on Book Clips? Check out more here

On this weeks episode of Culturation™ we speak with the Sales Servant, Taylor Barnes. We discuss how your past doesn't dictate your future, finding fulfillment by helping others and pivoting your business with the progression of technology and trends.  Taylor is Vice President of Global Business Development and a founding partner at CentricsIT. Barnes co-founded CentricsIT in 2007 and has since helped the organization become one of the fastest-growing companies in Georgia and one of the top IT Solution Providers in North America. He currently manages business development for the services side of the organization, responsible for charting and maintaining an aggressive revenue growth plan. CentricsIT services revenue has grown by 400% since Barnes assumed sales leadership responsibility over the segment in 2014.  Barnes was in his early twenties when he formed CentricsIT with his partners. His first role at the organization was as an IBM product specialist, brokering secondary market IBM equipment around the world. From there, he cut his teeth in the IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) space, creating the company's ITAD practice, which would mark the beginning of the organization's successful transition from an IT hardware reseller to a global, comprehensive IT solutions provider.  He moved into his current role in 2014, first as Director before his promotion to Vice President in 2017. Barnes's company, CentricsIT, is one of the top global exporters in Georgia, with offices in Toronto, Dubai, London, and Prague and additional presence in more than 80 countries.  The company has received the GLOBE award, which honors its contributions to the state's global trade, from Governor Nathan Deal each year since 2013. Barnes is a road warrior, frequently travelling around the world to further develop the company's business worldwide.  Husband to Brittany and father to Kellar and Cyrus, he is active in the community and, alongside his wife Brittany, donates time, money and resources to multiple causes close to his heart. #TaylorBarnes #Culturation #PoweredByPremier #Technology #Business #Sales #Leadership #JustinEpstein

In this episode of the Epic Company Culture Podcast, Taylor Barnes, Vice President of Global Business Development with CentricsIT joins us to discuss his unique take on sales culture; he calls it, “Continuing Improvement.” Taylor’s Continuing Improvement ideology emphasizes personal and professional development, as well as work life balance. The result is a high performing and highly engaged team that is encouraged to continue their education, as well as find their ideal work life balance.

A friendly soccer game on a dusty field in Brazil turns into a horrific act of violence.  Resources:  Article: A Yellow Card, Then Unfathomable Violence in Brazil by Jere Longman and Taylor Barnes for The New York Times, October 31, 2013 "Football Hooliganism" - a Wikipedia listing of instances of violence at soccer matches.  

Taylor Barnes is the Director of The United State of Women (USOW), a program created by the Civic Nation to mobilize civic engagement and push the movement forward for gender equality. Five thousand women from autoworkers, to midwives, to CEOs came to D.C. to talk about gender equality at the program’s inaugural summit last year. Taylor’s infectious energy and commitment to helping young women to turn their passion into action is inspiring to all! In this episode, Jess and Taylor discuss the purpose of USOW, the program’s future plans, and the state of gender equality around the world.

USA TODAY Sports Olympics reporter Nicole Auerbach is joined on the telephone by USAT sports editor David Meeks to dive into the ever-changing story of U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte and his three Olympic teammates and their encounter with Brazilian security guards at a gas station in Rio de Janeiro. David offers the latest findings in the investigation, which tilt the story toward the possibility that Brazilian police, like Lochte, might have embellished their story. The pair also discuss how Lochte was dropped from sponsors, how the media, in general, covered this story all wrong, and how the Rio Games should not be remembered mostly for this non-Games-related altercation. The story by Meeks and Taylor Barnes can be read at: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/rio-2016/2016/08/21/investigation-ryan-lochte-rio-olympics-authorities/89082232. Subscribe to and rate us on iTunes, and follow us on Twitter at @NicoleAuerbach and @ByDavidMeeks.

USA TODAY Sports reporter Rachel Axon is joined by a slew of guests to dissect the many issues facing Rio as the Olympics arrive. Rachel takes a look at the cost of these Olympics on Rio, how the city's issues could play out during the Games and what will happen when the world turns its focus away after closing ceremonies on Aug. 21. Guests include: reporter and Rio resident Taylor Barnes; Andrew Zimbalist, Smith College professor and author of "Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup"; Jules Boykoff, Pacific University politics teacher, author of "Power Games: A political history of the Olympics" and former U.S. men's soccer player; Elizabeth Talbot, an associate professor of medicine in the section of infectious disease and international health at Dartmouth and expert on outbreak and disease control; and Renata Neder, senior researcher and human rights adviser at Amnesty International's office in Brazil. Subscribe to and rate us on iTunes; follow us on Twitter @RachelAxon.

Bakko & Loose Cannon continue their return after a 2 month hiatus. Topics discussed: Corey Taylor's maggot followers destroying a Barnes & Noble, Alice in Chains concert review, Eddie Trunk's second career opening for bands at casinos and a preview of a completely original KISS-related talk show. Horns up, Windows Down. We can return no further; we are officially back.

Taylor Barnes is the co-founder of Denizens Brewing Co located in Silver Spring, MD. In this episode, we talk about making beer, being a female based business, and her career change from politics to beer. You can follow Denizens beer making journey on Twitter and Facebook.