Keeping The DREAM Alive

What A Day

Crooked Media

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4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

New GDP numbers released by the Commerce Department show that the size of the economy has risen above pre-pandemic levels, but an increased spread of coronavirus could slow that growth. Relatedly, the federal government announced several plans and ideas to address the vaccination slowdown, including cash incentives and reimbursement for federal employees who get the shot. Congressional Democrats might include a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers and undocumented essential workers in their party's $3.5 trillion spending bill. The matter is extremely pressing since a federal judge ruled this month that DACA was illegal, and that Biden promised to create a more humane immigration policy while on the campaign trail. We spoke with DACA recipients to get their thoughts on the current situation. And in headlines: Scarlett Johansson filed a lawsuit against Disney, Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” hit 1 billion views on YouTube, and Sunisa Lee took gold in gymnastics for Team USA. Plus, it's hard to believe, but it's our last episode with Akilah as a full-time host. We send her off in style. Show Notes: Behind-the-scenes of Akilah’s last day at WAD – https://bit.ly/3ic0EcW For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Friday, July 30th. I'm Achila Hughes.
0:08.3	And I'm getting a rest of the time. This is what a day featuring podcasting's answer to
0:11.8	Sunny and Share, hauling oats, staff punk, etc. etc.
0:14.9	Yeah, so I'm going to gar fungal, diggin' etc. all the musical demos we're out here.
0:19.7	This is something someone else said about us by the way.
0:21.8	Yeah, well they have good taste and we are musicians as you know.
0:25.5	Yeah, they nailed it. On today's show, Sunilie Lee becomes the fifth American woman in a row
0:34.8	to win the gymnastings all around at the Olympics. Plus, we're never going to give you up
0:38.8	times a billion Rick Rolling hits a milestone on YouTube.
0:42.8	Yeah, but first the latest on the economy and a throwback to last year.
0:46.7	When this is defeated, this hidden scourge is defeated. I think we're going to go up very rapidly
0:52.6	or economy and get back to where it was and beyond.
0:56.0	Scourge? Excuse me, I just want to find it.
0:58.7	Scourge?
0:59.6	Scourge, yeah, that's Scourge.
1:02.1	Who gets it? That was the guy who lost his re-election bid this past November, speaking on March 19th,
1:08.4	2020. And he's talking about how the economy was going to just bounce back the moment the pandemic
1:13.0	ends. So two things. One, so glad we don't have to hear from him anymore. Like, thank God.
1:17.8	And two, it appears the economy is back then better than ever, even before the end of the pandemic.
1:23.2	So let's start today by talking about that. Yeah. And this is based on new statistics that were
1:28.0	released by the government yesterday. So, Keela, can you give us a rundown of those actual numbers
1:32.0	that we're seeing that are suggesting that the economy is now bigger than before the pandemic?
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