Is Time Ticking For TikTok?
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh, and technology correspondent Bobby Allyn.
Our producers are Jeongyoon Han, Casey Morell & Kelli Wessinger. Our editor is Erica Morrison. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.
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| 0:00.0 | At a time when information continues to come at us faster and faster, sometimes you need to hit pause. |
| 0:07.0 | And rewind. |
| 0:10.0 | NPR's Thuleine takes you back in time to the source of the news stories filling your |
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| 0:26.4 | Hey there, this is Dr. Maddie Butterfield. I'm a veterinarian in Auburn, Alabama. |
| 0:28.8 | And today's match day. |
| 0:30.4 | I am minutes away from opening a website that will tell me where an algorithm has |
| 0:34.9 | determined I will go for residency training to become board certified and |
| 0:39.3 | veterinary anesthesiology. This podcast was recorded at 1.15 PM Eastern time on Thursday, March 14th of |
| 0:47.8 | 2024. I realize it's Pie Day. Things may have changed by the time you hear this. |
| 0:53.0 | Hopefully at that time, I will know where I'm going in my final step of specialty training |
| 0:58.0 | to being able to anesthetize all creatures great and small. |
| 1:01.0 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 1:02.8 | Such suspense. |
| 1:06.8 | Now I feel like we need a follow up. |
| 1:08.3 | Good luck, yeah. |
| 1:09.1 | To know where you actually mash, but such suspense. Hey there it's the NPR Politics |
| 1:14.7 | podcast I'm a Smachala that I cover the White House and I'm Deirdre Walsh I cover |
| 1:18.0 | Congress and Congress is giving the popular Chinese social media app |
| 1:22.1 | Tic-Toc, and ultimatum, either find an American buyer |
| 1:26.2 | or face a nationwide ban in the United States. |
| 1:29.4 | Today on the show, why lawmakers want to do this and what it could mean politically. |
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