Classified documents were where now?
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Grab your drinks and settle in, folks. It’s time for a little Economics on Tap! On today’s show, we’ll discuss the National Archives revealing that classified materials were recovered from former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property. Then, Kai and Kimberly dive into the troubling reactions to an ice skating final at the Winter Olympics, and the latest on a potential land war in Europe. Then things get a little musical during a round of our game Half Full/Half Empty (with a surprise host!).
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Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:
- “National Archives confirms classified material was in boxes at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence” from The Washington Post
- “Material Recovered From Trump by Archives Included Classified Information” from The New York Times
- “Looks Like the Auction of Melania Trump’s First NFT Was Such a Dud She Had to Buy the Thing Herself” from Artnet
- “What Happens When Pitchers and Catchers Don’t Report?” from The New York Times
- “A Disturbing Night of Olympic Figure Skating Exposes the Dark Side of the Rink” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Alaska Airlines unveils subscription-based flight passes for West Coast travel” from the Points Guy
- Disney to build residential neighborhoods in Storyliving project from CNN
- Workers trading business casual for business comfort, Stitch Fix CEO says from Marketplace
- Introducing “Bel-Air”: How a “Fresh Prince” Fan Trailer Became a Reimagined Story for a New Generation from Teen Vogue
- Facebook parent Meta wants workers to be “metamates” from The Washington Post
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