5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Where did the term "tariff" come from?
How toddlers have become impromptu archeologists (for real).
And an inspiring example of taking something old and making it new again.
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0:00.0 | An unlikely explorer finds a buried treasure, the unexpected backstory to tariffs involving pirates. |
0:07.0 | And instead of throwing away what's old, how about making it into something brand new? |
0:11.7 | It's your weekly segment, anything but politics. |
0:14.3 | I'm Jenna, and this is smarter news. |
0:24.1 | Treasure hunting, tariffs, and tips for your family heirlooms. |
0:28.9 | This is what we're going to cover today. |
0:30.3 | And I really worked hard at that alliteration because I wanted it to flow and feel easy. |
0:34.4 | In this weekly segment, anything but politics. |
0:36.6 | Because when we get to the end of the week, we want to talk about anything but politics. And this is what we're going to do in this segment. We have a little bit of news, and we're going to take one of the big headlines from the week, and we're going to put a little bit of a twist on it. I learned a few things about tariffs that I thought you would really find interesting. But first, let's talk about treasure hunting. That's always a good place to start. So the following story |
0:57.7 | has a news hook and also a parenting tip. The parenting tip is every time you're taller, |
1:02.3 | picks up, a picks up something off the floor, don't just swipe it out of their hand. It's a natural |
1:06.6 | reflex by parents. And there's a reason for that. I remember when my daughter was walking through |
1:10.8 | the airport one time and picked up somebody's used mint. And before I could get to her, |
1:16.5 | she put it right in her mouth. I can still picture it. This is why you develop that reflex. |
1:23.0 | Don't touch that. Put it down. Thankfully in this story, the parents didn't do that. They were out for a |
1:29.1 | walk and nature walk with a three-year-old that was picking up a few things along the way. Her father |
1:34.0 | told the Washington Post, she picks everything up off the ground. Sounds completely on brand, |
1:38.7 | doesn't it? Her mother told the same paper. She always finds small things and brings them with her. |
1:43.6 | Well, this time, the toddler |
1:45.0 | picked up a small artifact dating back to 2000 BC, an ancient Egyptian charm with an engraving on it. |
1:54.0 | The site where this all happened is in Israel, and it's actually a well-known location. |
1:59.8 | It's the same site where it's believed that David and |
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