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Credits

Guests:

Jason Sklar - host of “View from the Cheap Seats” podcast - @SklarBrothers
Randy Sklar - host of “View from the Cheap Seats” podcast - @SklarBrothers

Host:

Madeleine Brand

Producers:

Sarah Sweeney, Stephen Gregory, Angie Perrin, Amy Ta, Brian Hardzinski, Zeke Reed, Nihar Patel

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Jan. 6 anniversary, TikTok trial, yacht rock

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The Supreme Court hears a challenge on Friday to a federal law that will ban TikTok if the Chinese parent company ByteDance doesn’t sell the popular social media app.

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In the mid-1970s and ‘80s in SoCal, bands like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and Toto blended jazz, R&B, and pop to create a new soft style: yacht rock.

16 min