“Make Me Smart,” NYC-style
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
On the show today, Marielle Segarra joins the pod from New York to discuss a few NYC-centric stories. First, the mayor there, Bill de Blasio, announced a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all private-sector employees following the emergence of the omicron variant. Plus, bagel lovers are going bananas over a cream cheese shortage. Then, Plowy McPlowface? Jennifer Snowpez? Kids got creative naming snowplows, and it’s making us smile.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “New York City mandates shots for all private businesses amid Omicron spread” from Reuters
- Is bitcoin fading?
- “When federal assistance for ‘daily living’ doesn’t include parenting” from the 19th
- “How a Cream Cheese Shortage Is Affecting N.Y.C. Bagel Shops” from The New York Times
- “F1 Title Down to the Final Race for First Time Since 1974?” from Bloomberg
- “Plowy McPlowface. Jennifer Snowpez. Kids in Vermont got to name some of the state’s snowplows, and the results are delightful” from The Boston Globe
- “Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet Decide” from The New York Times (published 2016)
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| 1:21.2 | So just because, and I don't know how much of that pre-show chatter you're going to |
| 1:24.6 | hear when Bridget finally makes the edit to the rough of this pod, we were talking |
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