Kai shares some news

Make Me Smart

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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Kai makes a special annoucement! But first, Moody’s knocked the United States’ government’s credit rating down a peg below Triple-A. We’ll break down what that actually means and why it may not be as dire as it sounds but still matters a lot for the vibes. Plus, we’ll explain why, even with a majority, the House GOP hasn’t been able to pass its budget bill. And, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty and nerd out on “Star Wars” spin-off shows.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

"House budget panel rejects GOP megabill amid conservative opposition" from Politico
"Army to place large metal plates on DC streets to protect them from tanks during June parade" from WTOP News
"U.S. Loses Last Triple-A Credit Rating" from The Wall Street Journal
"Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode" from Wired
"Why banks still have branches — and why some are motivated to add more" from Marketplace
"Gen Z's 'conscious unbossing' should be a wake-up call for businesses" from Business Insider
"Is the Next Great American Novel Being Published on Substack?" from The New Yorker
"Warner’s Streaming Service Has New Name: Its Old One. Meet ‘HBO Max.’" from The Wall Street Journal

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0:00.0	Well, there we go. Thanks for the heads up, Honcarlo. I appreciate that.
0:06.7	Hello, everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense when we can.
0:12.6	Yeah, when we can. I'm Kyle Rosal. Thanks for joining us on the pod this afternoon, the YouTube live stream as well.
0:17.8	For those of you who are there, This is Economics on Tap Friday, today,
0:21.2	16 May 2025. Yes, and today we're going to get into some news and play a game, but first, of course,
0:28.6	we will talk drinks. Kai, what you got? We will. I am having, for the first time, in a very long time,
0:34.1	the OG West Coast IPA, the Stone Original IPA, brewed down in Escondido,
0:42.7	6.9% ABV. It's quite tasty. And it's been, I've gone to most, I've gone mostly to hazies,
0:49.7	not that that really matters. But, but now I'm, I'm taking a brief journey back into regular IPAs and they're
0:56.5	quite tasty. Okay. Tasty. What about you? What's you doing? I made a fancy cocktail today.
1:04.2	It's crashing in the background. I'm going to ignore it. Sorry, Liv's playing with a well out back.
1:09.3	She's playing ball, so there's going to be some noises.
1:11.9	All right, we're going to have all the noises today.
1:14.6	I made a fancy cocktail today, you know, kind of combining some of the random ingredients I had in my house, did one of those things.
1:21.8	So this one has coniac.
1:25.0	Yes.
1:26.6	Cognac, cherry, brandy, triple sec, grenadine, and lime.
1:32.9	And it is called The Last Goodbye.
1:36.3	Sorry, cognac and what is the other spirit?
1:38.5	Grenadine and then what was before?
1:39.7	Cherry brandy, triple sick.
1:41.7	Cherry brandy.
	...

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