Air conditioning and political dysfunction

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🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

What does air conditioning have to do with political dysfunction in Washington? Apparently, more than you’d imagine. We’ll get into the history behind AC in the halls of Congress and how that’s affected the way lawmakers do their jobs. Then, what drove Sen. Mitt Romney to call it quits? Plus, staging a career comeback isn’t easy. Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles are showing us how it’s done.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate” from The Atlantic

- “Wall Street Bet Big on Used-Car Loans for Years. Now a Crisis May Be Looming.” from ProPublica

- “‘We Put in Air Conditionin’, Stayed Year-Round, and Ruined America’” from Politico

- “Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles are modeling how to stage a career comeback” from Quartz

- “It Only Tuesday” from The Onion

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, I'm good to go.
0:09.0	Everybody, I'm Kai Rose. I welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.
0:15.0	And I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you everyone for joining us on this Wednesday.
0:19.0	It is September the 13th.
0:22.0	How is it only Wednesday? How is it only Wednesday?
0:26.0	Have I ever sent you that a new article it only Tuesday?
0:30.0	Oh, no.
0:32.0	But oh my god.
0:34.0	Yeah.
0:36.0	Yeah.
0:37.0	So we're going to do some news.
0:39.0	We'll do at least one smile because I am bereft of smiles today for whatever reason.
0:43.0	Nothing struck my fancy.
0:45.0	And I figured better to, you know, cop to it then go out and find something that was just, you know, whatever.
0:50.0	Anyway, we're going to get started.
0:52.0	And since I'm saying this part, Kimberly, you get to say the next part, which is what is your news for the day?
0:57.0	Madam.
0:58.0	Now, I feel guilty about my Make Me Smile because I also was bereft of smiles.
1:03.0	And I was like, you know, trawling the internet searching for drugs of happiness.
1:08.0	Anyway, my actual news, two pieces.
1:12.0	First of all, one in pro-publica.
1:15.0	And it's a piece about the looming crisis in used car loans that I'm just going to read from the beginning.
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