Minions are everywhere
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for us to answer questions from you! With “Minions: The Rise of Gru” becoming the latest movie to dominate grocery store advertising, one listener wonders how these massive cross promotions work. We’ve got the inside scoop. Plus, answers to your questions about employers offering to cover abortion costs, El Salvador’s efforts to make bitcoin a national currency, and big news in the world of beer!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Companies scramble to figure out abortion travel benefit, privacy protections” from Marketplace
- “El Salvador becomes the first to make bitcoin a national currency” from Marketplace
- “A Poor Country Made Bitcoin a National Currency. The Bet Isn’t Paying Off.” from The New York Times
- Watch this TikTok about the “Minions” marketing campaign
- “Sapporo USA to acquire California craft brewer Stone Brewing” from the Associated Press
Have a question about the economy, tech or culture? Send it our way. We’re at makemesmart@marketplace.org. You can also leave us a voice message at (508) 827-6278 or (508) U-B-SMART.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | But it seems we are both here. So shall we begin? |
| 0:04.5 | Yeah, I'm ready. |
| 0:06.1 | Okay. |
| 0:07.8 | Oh, she's going to say, let's Charlton's actually. |
| 0:10.9 | It's Juan Carlos. |
| 0:13.1 | Hey, I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. |
| 0:18.9 | No matter who is engineering and pushing buttons down in downtown Los Angeles, I'm |
| 0:22.4 | Carlos. Now, thank you for joining us for what do you want to know? |
| 0:24.4 | Wednesday, we will get smarter together by the questions all y'all send us. |
| 0:29.8 | By whatever method you do. |
| 0:30.8 | So. |
| 0:32.1 | And if you've got a question about the economy or business or tech, email us and make |
| 0:37.0 | me smart at marketplace.org or you can leave us a voicemail. |
| 0:40.4 | Our number is 508 U B smart. |
| 0:44.6 | All right. Up first today, we're going to go to the recent Supreme Court ruling |
| 0:48.4 | over turning Roe v Wade, the case is known as dobs. |
| 0:51.3 | Here's the question. |
| 0:52.4 | Hi, this is Jeff from Chicago. |
| 0:54.4 | I have a question about the employers who are saying that they will pay for abortion |
| 0:58.7 | coverage or the travel for abortion coverage. |
| 1:01.7 | How exactly do they plan to do that? |
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