Mar-a-Lago, here we come

Make Me Smart

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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We couldn’t end the week without talking about the story we’ve (quietly) been avoiding: the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. Kimberly and guest host Meghan McCarty Carino explain how the story went from an investigation about classified documents to espionage. Plus, is polio making a comeback? Then, the hosts weigh in on Serena Williams’ retirement, Peloton getting pricier and splooting!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

“FBI search warrant shows Trump under investigation for potential obstruction of justice, Espionage Act violations” from Politico
“House passes Inflation Reduction Act, sending climate and health bill to Biden” from The Washington Post
“Who Sploots?” from Slate
“Did inflation just peak? The markets are acting like it.” from Marketplace
“Cringey LinkedIn posts like the crying CEO are inspiring a culture of backlash” from Fast Company
“Why Serena Williams’s Retirement Is Different” from The Atlantic
“Peloton slashing 780 jobs, closing stores and hiking prices in push to turn profit” from CNBC

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0:00.0	Chit chat and chit chat and chit chat and oh and here we go. Now see now I know.
0:06.2	Yeah it's time. Hello everyone I am Kimberly Adams welcome back to make me smart
0:12.9	where we make today make sense. Hey I am Megan McCarty Carino in
0:18.2	for Chi Ristall thank you to everyone for joining us this Friday for the
0:22.6	YouTube live stream and on the podcast for economics on tap. Yes and thank
0:29.7	you yes everybody on the YouTube live stream listening later on the folks on
0:33.6	the fan run discord even though I can't seem to load it on my computer today
0:36.8	but Megan what are you drinking before we get to our news fixes and our
0:42.2	games and things like that. Yeah so I did not have time for any sort of
0:47.6	complicated concoction which is usually my way so I relied on the people of
0:52.6	France to produce a nice proven soul rosé that I had on my fridge so that's
0:56.9	what I'm about and it's pretty warm here I'm gonna tell you so it's nice and
1:03.6	refreshing what about you I hope you are having something restorative for
1:08.4	your Friday yes indeed I am I've got my mug of
1:14.6	Jasper is letting himself be known there there we go I have my mug of throat
1:22.4	coat tea with some cloves in it as well as a nice healthy dose of Drambui. What
1:29.8	is Drambui? Oh oh well this is a story so some time ago a friend of mine her
1:38.2	mom suggested that I try this cocktail called a rusty nail which I'd never had
1:42.6	before which is made of sponge and Drambui and it literally made my eyes
1:48.4	water and cough and I had it on the podcast with Kai and everyone laughed at me
1:53.3	but it cleared my sinuses that's true so since I still had some Drambui I
2:00.6	decided to mix it with what is like does it have some sort of aromatics to it
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