Lady Gaga’s Post-Pandemic Plans, & “Hakuna Matata,” It Means No Market Worries

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In a conversation exclusive to Squawk Pod, singer, actress, activist, and Presidential Inauguration performer Lady Gaga shares her hopes for rebuilding community spirit post-pandemic. She and Becky Quick discuss her inauguration performance, mental health amid Covid, and the WELL Health-Safety Seal initiative to bolster consumer confidence in shared indoor spaces like live concert and sport venues. Plus, Elon Musk is moving markets, and The New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman gives a graphic, circle-of-life-inspired explanation of the RobinHood, GameStop, short squeeze drama.

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0:00.0	This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer today on our podcast.
0:07.0	Lions, hyenas, vultures, and game stop, Tom Friedman's Nature Show explanation of the week that was.
0:14.0	The really smart vultures ate and flew away when the stock was $500.
0:19.2	The dumb ones are going to stick around and keep eating and in the end the lions will come along and eat
0:24.9	them it's the circle of life a kuna Matata baby. And Lady Gaga the master
0:31.4	entertainer is speaking out about rebuilding community post-pandemic in a conversation
0:36.8	you'll hear only on Squawk Pod.
0:39.2	One of the most important things that we must re-establish is community. I've always believed in
0:45.8	community I believe that I believe in a kind community and I believe that
0:49.8	community is one of the ways that we're really going to pull ourselves out of the
0:53.7	mental health crisis that is occurring as a result of 19. The COVID safety
0:58.2	initiative she's backing to get us back to concerts again and what it was like
1:02.3	singing at the presidential
1:03.8	inauguration. I think it was perhaps the biggest crowd I've ever performed for in my
1:08.2	life. I can say truly that the heart of the Capitol was beating and it was beating strongly.
1:14.3	Those stories end the continuing power of Elon Musk's tweets.
1:18.0	It's Friday, January 29, 2021,
1:21.0	Squackpad begins right now.
1:24.0	Good morning everybody.
1:25.1	Welcome to Squawk Box here on C.
1:27.4	I'm Becky Quick, along with Joe Kerner
1:28.9	and Andrew Ross Sorkin, as we crash into this Friday,
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