Make Me Smart: 2024 Olympics edition
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of Economics on Tap, we’ll get into some news while toasting the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics. First, Kimberly teaches us how to make an Olympic torch cocktail (complete with a real flame)! And, we’ll play a Paris Games-themed round of This or That. But first, a discussion of the history of women’s sportswear at the Olympic Games and Boeing’s Starliner crew (still) stuck in space.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “50 days after launch to ISS, Boeing Starliner astronauts still have no landing date” from Space
- “Olympic athletes are approaching the limits of human performance” from The Washington Post
- “From Corsets to Singlets, the Olympics Have Driven the Evolution of Women’s Sportswear” from Smithsonian magazine
- “How Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky does what no one else does. Every day.” from The Washington Post
- “The Double Kick” from 99% Invisible
- “Today, Explained podcast” from Vox
Keep sending us your Olympic-themed cocktail ideas. Email makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.
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| 0:31.0 | Hello IT, anyone. Hey everybody everybody I'm Kyle Rizdall |
| 0:34.2 | welcome back to make me smart and welcome back to me actually I haven't been here |
| 0:36.9 | in like three freaking Fridays or something it is the 26th of July I know right 26th of July Olympic opening ceremonies were a little while ago if you |
| 0:47.1 | haven't watched well you should fast forward through a lot of it that's all I'm saying |
| 0:52.0 | I haven't watched any of it but I was too busy putting up my Olympics |
| 0:56.0 | decorations. I'm Kimberly Adams thank you for joining us on our |
| 0:59.5 | podcast and on the YouTube live stream for everybody who logged in. |
| 1:03.0 | This is Economics on Tap 2024 Olympics edition. |
| 1:07.4 | We're going to dive into some headlines, |
| 1:09.0 | but we're also going to do some drinks |
| 1:11.0 | and a special game coming up after the break so grab your |
| 1:14.6 | beverage of choice and settle in Mr Rizdahl what are you drinking? I am having |
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