Goodbye cable, hello streaming!
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
We’ve got a lot to talk about today! First, we’re still considering the ways in which the Inflation Reduction Act is going to change our economy. Speaking of change, in July, Americans for the first time spent more time streaming than watching cable. Pause for quick detour into what we’re streaming now. Then, a Make Me Smile for those looking for a solution for hair loss: There might be a pill for that.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Why Buying an Electric Car Just Became More Complicated” from The New York Times
- “Americans Spent More Time Streaming Than Watching Cable TV in July — a First” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Florida’s ‘Stop Woke Act’ for Workplaces Blocked by Federal Judge” from Bloomberg
- “An Old Medicine Grows New Hair for Pennies a Day, Doctors Say” from The New York Times
Join us tomorrow for Economics on Tap! We’ll be livestreaming on YouTube starting at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, 3:30 p.m. Pacific time.
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| 0:00.0 | We're ready. You ready? The cat nearby? I'm ready. The cat is sleeping for the moment. Let's go. |
| 0:05.9 | Let's go. Let's stay for a week. I know. For a week, second. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm excited to sing the song of his people. Hi, I'm Kim Really Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 0:14.7 | Where we make today make sense when we're kitten sitting. That's right. Hey everybody, |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Kai Rosal. Thanks for joining us on this Thursday. It's Thursday. It's Thursday. |
| 0:24.4 | Yes, and on this Thursday, we're going to talk about the news and then end on, well, |
| 0:28.5 | at least I will end on some Make Me Smiles. Call me out. What are you doing? |
| 0:32.5 | Before we even get going. Well, let you go first on your news fix. |
| 0:37.3 | Have a good time. Okay. Minor, well, so look, this is and this is a little bit of kind of why I don't |
| 0:41.6 | have a Make Me Smile today. There was, okay, so I just got back from vacation like four days ago. |
| 0:47.8 | And while as I think I talked about the other day, it was not a disconnect from my work brain |
| 0:52.4 | vacation, right? Because of the economics down in Argentina and the inflation we talked about on it. |
| 0:56.0 | But what I did disconnect from was all the, and look, Bridget, I apologize. This is going to get us |
| 1:01.9 | the e so beat me or whatever you want to do. But from all the bulls that is in the American |
| 1:09.2 | media environment right now, you know, all the political he said she said, all the cable television |
| 1:15.4 | incessant drumbeat of garbage that just takes away from the actual challenges that this country |
| 1:21.7 | faces and amplifies the ridiculous. And anyway, all of that. And I just, it kind of bummed me out |
| 1:29.8 | all day. So I went for sort of not really newsy, but more news you can usey kind of news as opposed |
| 1:37.2 | to sort of topical and on the news news, if that makes any sense. Does that make sense? Sure. |
| 1:43.9 | Thank you for tolerating me. Okay. So anyway, so I've got two things. One, one which is really just |
| 1:52.8 | totally news you can use because it's going to be useful for many, many people. We talked about the |
| 1:59.7 | inflation reduction act yesterday and how really that's just a branding thing and blah, blah, blah. |
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