Consequences for Kanye West
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
It’s a tough day to be reading the news. We’ll discuss the consequences of Kanye West’s antisemitic hate speech, including racist protests in Los Angeles and reactions from some of his corporate partners. We’ll also talk about a personal connection to today’s school shooting in St. Louis. Then, we’ll try to pivot to a Make Me Smile with a not-so-friendly neighborhood clown and a data dive into bugs on your windshield. And Kimberly reveals an unplanned answer to the Make Me Smart question (what is something you thought you knew and later found out you were wrong about?).
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Kanye West Tests Adidas and His Other Corporate Partners” from The New York Times
- Fears of rising antisemitism after banner saying ‘Kanye is right’ is hung over Los Angeles freeway from NBC News
- “Teacher and teen student killed in shooting at south St. Louis high school. Suspect dead.” from St. Louis Today
- Student describes being in St. Louis school during shooting
- An adorably creepy Make Me Smile from listener Miranda A.!
- “This woman bakes recipes she finds on gravestone epitaphs: ‘They’re to die for’” from The Washington Post
- “Wait, why are there so few dead bugs on my windshield these days?” from The Washington Post
If you’ve got a question for the hosts or your own answer to the Make Me Smart question, call 508-U-B-SMART and leave us a voicemail. You can email [email protected].
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| 0:00.0 | All right, it seems like we're good to go. Let's just do it. |
| 0:02.8 | I'm ready. Oh, |
| 0:05.8 | and Jake is ready too. |
| 0:06.9 | Not screw around today. Holy. |
| 0:09.4 | Hello. I'm Kimberly Adams and welcome back to make me smart where we make today |
| 0:15.0 | make sense. Happy Monday, everyone. |
| 0:18.0 | Happy Monday. I'm kind of rised out today. We're going to do what we do on Monday. |
| 0:21.4 | It's talking about a new story that deserves some extra attention and then we'll end on to make me smile as we always do. |
| 0:26.1 | Well, not every day, but let's see Mondays, Wednesday, no, not Wednesdays. |
| 0:30.3 | Mondays and Thursdays, we do make me smile. That's it. Sorry. Just had to catalog that in my head. |
| 0:35.4 | Oh, I never really thought about it, but yeah, it's only two days a week. |
| 0:38.8 | So there you go. There you go. It feels like the balance needs to be different. |
| 0:43.1 | Like more days. Well, I mean, with me, we've got like the, we've got the question. |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah, have fun. We've got the thing. |
| 0:48.9 | The half of half empty is kind of a make me smile and there's cocktails. So that's fine. |
| 0:53.5 | Okay. All right. It balances. Yeah. |
| 0:57.0 | All right. Why don't you go first because mine is extra extra room? |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah. No, I know. And my goodness. |
| 1:03.4 | So I just want to make sure that everybody is up to speed on the Kanye West |
| 1:11.4 | debacle of anti-Semitism and |
| 1:16.2 | horrible behavior that's coming out of him |
| 1:19.1 | as corporate sponsors try to figure out what to do. Adidas most specifically not having yet severed their ties |
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