United Airlines stock plummeted Tuesday after videos of a passenger violently being removed from a flight against his will went viral. He was involuntarily bumped from his flight and, when he refused to leave, the airline called in law enforcement to remove the passenger who was seen in the video being dragged down the aisle. At first, the company’s CEO issued two statements standing by United’s actions, but within an hour of Tuesday’s closing bell, he issued a stronger apology and promised a full review of everything that happened. Paul English, who co-founded the travel sites Kayak and Lola, as well as GetHuman, and C.A. Webb, who cofounded Understore and is a board member at the Alliance for Business Leadership join Jim Braude with their perspective on United’s situation and what the company’s next move should be.
Women hold more than half of management jobs, but are barely represented in the place that matters most: corporate boardrooms. Only about 20 percent of top corporate board seats are filled by women nationally and here at home.
Our current culture is ripe with issues to dissect, and that’s exactly what comedian and author Lindy West does in her new book Shrill: Notes From A Loud Woman, which chronicles her path of self-discovery. She sits down with Jim to discuss her book, a collection of essays, which covers her public battle with rape jokes in comedy, an internet troll who actually apologized, and her wholehearted embrace of F-words – funny, feminism and fat. Lindy West is also a columnist at The Guardian, a contributor to This American Life, and the founder of the teen advice blog called I Believe You, It's Not Your Fault.
Jim shares his thoughts on parents who take their kids’ sports too far—a problem that drove one local championship winning coach to throw in the towel.
