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We have the same guests in today’s Tidbits that we had last episode. Amy Drew tells us about the two years that she worked at Play Girl, including celebrities she met while there! Ben is back talking more about his movie Mock ‘n Roll and we talk a little about working together in the past.
In episode 3 of The Lady Raptastic Show, Lady Raptastic talks about how hard it is for women to get jobs, losing one’s train of thought a.k.a. The Slinky Dog Effect, code switching depending on the racial make up of the listening audience, Wendy Williams’ Wigs, daytime television and Dr. Phil, Beyoncé in The Lion King, Sammy Davis Jr. and Flip Wilson, and how nothing is changing hello please.
In episode 14, Simon welcomes Jesse, Jake and Carlos to the Simon Time Trivia Show for three rounds of trivia goodness!
Transcript of episode 12:
The Community Redevelopment Agency did a sloppy job procuring new downtown holiday decorations. These decorations were sorely needed – the current ones are 20 years old and according to the agency in a state of disrepair. However, they waited until October to ask City Council for permission to buy $197,858 in new holiday decorations in time to have them hung by Thanksgiving Day, their self-created due date. No reason was given in City documents for their delay.
Due to the inaction by the agency, they had to ask for what’s known as a negotiated procurement. It prevents the agency from doing the work of putting together the pieces to execute a formal competitive solicitation process for businesses to bid on getting the chance to get paid by the city to provide the decorations. That’s not fair to those businesses. Shame on you Community Redevelopment Agency. Sounds like you handed the gig to a company and didn’t do a lick of work and blamed the universe for your shoddy behavior.
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