I guess Elon wasn’t joking about Twitter

Make Me Smart

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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Plenty of things to make us go huh on this Monday edition of Make Me Smart. Of course, there’s the news surrounding billionaire Elon Musk, who’s very real offer to purchase Twitter was accepted by the company’s board of directors today. We’ll get to that after we talk about a dip in global oil demand following the wave of lockdowns across China as that country deals with new COVID-19 outbreaks. We’ll end the show with a couple of Make Me Smiles, including one about a small town jumping through hoops for recognition.

Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:

“China’s Oil Demand Is Tumbling the Most Since Wuhan Lockdown” from Bloomberg
For a firsthand look at the lockdown in Shanghai, follow Marketplace’s Jennifer Pak on Instagram
“Musk’s Boring Company to begin ‘full-scale’ hyperloop testing this year” from TechCrunch
“After years of failure, Elon Musk’s Boring Company claims it will finally test a full-scale hyperloop this year” from Fortune
“Fed’s Powell to Hold First In-Person Press Conference of Pandemic Next Week” from Bloomberg
“Welcome to Herkimer, N.Y., the (other) birthplace of basketball” from The Washington Post

Have a question or comment about something you heard on the show? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a voice message at 508-827-6278 or 508-U-B-SMART.

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's possible that I'm not ready. Somehow you'll find a way.
0:03.4	Ditch. Also, Charlton Thorpe does not care.
0:07.3	You're not ready? Tough.
0:09.4	Tough, we need beanies. Oh, man.
0:12.0	Hey, everybody. I'm Kyle Rizzo. Welcome back to Make Me Smart.
0:14.4	Making today make sense is what we do.
0:16.8	I made me Scott in for Kimberly Adams.
0:19.4	Thanks for joining us on this Monday.
0:21.1	Kyle and I will have some news for you and some Make Me
0:23.7	Smiles to brighten things up.
0:26.0	So let's start with the news fix.
0:27.4	And this one actually might make people smile because granted my
0:32.4	my actual Make Me Smile is a little inside baseball.
0:35.5	But but look.
0:37.0	So let's think globally here for a second.
0:40.4	Shanghai has been locked down for I think it's 25 days now and
0:45.0	oh, by the way, just a little public service announcement here.
0:48.0	If you dear listener are not following our Shanghai
0:52.5	based correspondent and colleague Jennifer Pack on Instagram.
0:55.5	And I think she's. Oh, God.
0:58.0	What is she? J Pack radio on I'll look it up while while Amy's
1:01.5	doing her thing or somebody can put it in the Slack.
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