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The Indicator from Planet Money

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4.7 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The Federal Trade Commission's hammer hit a weight loss app geared towards children earlier this month. What this decision means for businesses, consumers and online privacy.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:12.1	This is the indicator from Planet Money.
0:13.8	I'm Whalen Wong.
0:15.1	And I'm Adrian Ma.
0:16.4	The other night, John Verdi watched a classic film.
0:18.9	A movie I am also obsessed with.
0:21.5	The 1991 action film Point Break.
0:24.8	Now is that like the 100th time you watched Point Break 50th time?
0:28.3	It's well into the dozens.
0:29.5	Oh my God, Point Break.
0:30.5	I just saw this movie like a couple of weeks ago for the first time.
0:34.3	Oh, congrats.
0:35.5	For those of you who haven't seen it, it stars Keanu Reeves as an FBI agent who goes undercover
0:40.4	with a gang of surfers who also rob banks, led by Patrick Swazie.
0:44.8	Totally plausible plot.
0:47.9	So many great scenes.
0:49.5	John watched Point Break on HBO Max.
0:51.8	And afterwards, the service recommended some other early 90s crime thrillers, one movie
0:56.0	called Ricochet, starring Denzel Washington, and another one called Rush about cops going
1:00.6	undercover with drug dealers.
1:02.5	And this is an experience most of us are familiar with, right?
1:04.7	I mean, we shop online or we stream music.
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