It’s the end of an era for giant GE

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

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Summary

General Electric is breaking up! The megacorporation is splintering off into three separate companies. We’ll get into what that means for one of America’s biggest industrial conglomerates. Also, guest host Amy Scott joins us to discuss the dangers of humanitarian work in times of war. And dynamic pricing is coming for checked luggage. We’ll get smart (and angry!) about airline baggage fees.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “José Andrés: Let People Eat” from The New York Times

- “Israel-Hamas war: Aid group halts delivery in Gaza after Israeli strike” from The Associated Press

- “How José Andrés and World Central Kitchen Became Leaders in Disaster Aid” from The New York Times

- “We Feed People” documentary from National Geographic

- “With GE’s split, the last chapter of the Jack Welch era is over” from Axios

- “JetBlue’s new checked bag fees now depend on the day” from CNN

- “Why do airlines charge so much for checked bags? This obscure rule helps explain why” from The Conversation

- “For families that need the most help, child care costs are about to drop” from The 19th

- “Column: Disneyland is ditching gas cars at Autopia. It’s a great first step for Tomorrowland” from the Los Angeles Times

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make
0:10.4	today makes sense. And I'm Amy Scott filling in today for Kai Risdall.
0:15.0	Thank you for joining us this Wednesday.
0:17.0	It is April 3rd.
0:20.0	And today we are going to do some news and then some smiles. Let's get to it.
0:25.2	Amy, what caught your attention today?
0:27.2	Well, a couple of items about the seven aid workers who were killed by an Israeli
0:33.6	airstrike in Gaza on Monday while after they unloaded food on behalf of
0:39.6	this group World Central Kitchen. It's of course a terrible tragedy. The first thing I read that I
0:47.6	recommend is a piece that ran in the New York Times by Chef Jose Andres himself. he's the founder of World Central Kitchen, and he wrote about
0:56.6	the people who were killed, calling them the best of humanity, who risked everything to bring food to people who needed it.
1:04.0	But also there was another Times piece by reporter Kim Seversen
1:09.0	about this organization, World Central Kitchen,
1:11.0	and how it really pioneered a new way to deliver emergency relief.
1:16.0	I think those of us in the mid-Atlantic region are familiar with this group.
1:21.0	Chef Jose Andres has a lot of restaurants in the DC area, but this aid effort
1:27.6	started in 2010 when he was in Haiti after a major earthquake and was cooking with Haitians who were living in a
1:34.9	camp and learning local recipes from them and kind of realize that emergency food
1:39.9	aid would work better and be more comforting to people experiencing disasters if it was
1:45.8	local cuisine made by local chefs. So he really expanded to use this network of local chefs
1:52.2	to serve meals in Houston after Hurricane
1:55.4	Harvey and Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. I learned about the group during
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