FEMA Misinformation, Candidates On the Podcast Circuit, Israelis Mark Oct. 7
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🗓️ 8 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Federal disaster authorities prepare for a new hurricane along with a flood of lies. |
| 0:07.0 | This kind of rhetoric is not helpful to people. |
| 0:10.0 | What is FEMA actually doing in disaster zones and how do false claims get in their way? |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Steve Insky with A Martinez and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:19.2 | If you're hearing my voice, you know this is true. Many voters get their |
| 0:25.1 | information from podcasts. Maybe that's why presidential candidates are |
| 0:29.3 | appearing on so many of them lately. Sometimes they even make news. |
| 0:32.3 | Also Israeli memorials on |
| 0:34.2 | October 7th brought the country together in mourning and also revealed |
| 0:37.8 | divisions when are Israelis thinking as the war with Hamas enters a |
| 0:41.2 | second year and for the residents of Gaza it was another day of |
| 0:44.6 | airstrikes. Stay with us we've and on the How to Do Everything |
| 0:58.3 | podcast from the team at Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. We will answer any |
| 1:02.0 | question you have no matter how |
| 1:03.6 | ridiculous like maybe you want to get a haircut in space and you're not sure how |
| 1:08.0 | astronaut Frank Rubio has had a haircut in space we plan for everything right |
| 1:12.1 | and so it's not a pretty haircut for sure |
| 1:14.0 | but it's functional. Listen to the How to Do Everything podcast from NPR. |
| 1:19.3 | Democrats used to take Michigan for granted then the state helped carry Donald Trump to the White House. |
| 1:25.0 | All this week, NPR's consider this podcast is talking to Michigan voters about how issues like |
| 1:30.1 | the war in Gaza could shape the 2024 race. |
| 1:33.3 | There needs to be a policy change, |
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