Episode 88: Apple Amazon Google Facebook Hearing breakdown with Molly Wood
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
- News Bits! Epstein docs unsealed. COVID surges back in Japan, Germany and Australia. Penguins hockey returns. Congress lets unemployment benefit expire.
- Mailbag! JuRY gets ROASTED for his Cuomo take and reads Umberto Eco's 14 Features of Fascism from both left and right perspectives.
- Molly Wood (@MollyWood) of Marketplace and Make Me Smart breaks down everything you need to know about the big tech hearings on Wednesday and if we will see any action.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is brought to you by Andy Beach, Nick Wood, Paul Boyer, Michael Bullock, and Will Harris. |
| 0:35.0 | Politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, podcast. Yeah, it's the end of July, |
| 0:40.0 | July 31st, 2020. The boy Justin Robert Young, we got a humdinger of a show here for you. |
| 0:50.0 | A bit of a potpourri. |
| 0:53.0 | There's not really a dominant story right now. |
| 0:56.0 | And so we're going to do a new segment called NewsBits |
| 1:00.0 | where we're going to go through some news. |
| 1:03.0 | And then we're going to do a mailbag |
| 1:07.0 | where you guys get to set the agenda. |
| 1:10.0 | And boy, howdy, have I learned that just because you think people are not going to yell at you for your quo mo take, |
| 1:20.0 | boy are they gonna yell at you if you doubled down on your quo mo take so we got some |
| 1:25.8 | quo m stands in the house I will answer to them but the real meet here, the big main event is the debut of just a great friend in the podcasting world and that is Molly Wood. |
| 1:47.0 | Molly Wood has been a podcasting professional for years and years and years |
| 1:52.1 | starting with Buzz Out Loud. |
| 1:54.1 | She is currently at Marketplace and she does the podcast Make Me Smart with |
| 2:00.2 | Kyra's Dahl. She also does the It's a Thing Podcast. with Kyrizdahl. |
| 2:02.5 | She also does the It's a Thing podcast |
| 2:05.3 | with PX3 contributor and guest host, |
| 2:09.5 | Tom Merritt, whom she did buzz out loud with. |
| 2:13.0 | But she has just a great, great, great knowledge and very insightful commentary on where we are with tech and antitrust. So we are going to go deep, deep on this antitrust stuff, specifically everything you need to know that maybe you had time to watch that five hour |
| 2:37.0 | the five hour hearing, maybe you're dialed in on tech, maybe you not this is it this is really all you need to |
| 2:44.4 | know we're gonna we're gonna wrap all of it up company by company Google Amazon Facebook Apple Amazon, Facebook, Apple. |
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