Mon. 05/10 - Got Wood? America's Mounting Lumber Problem

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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America is off candy. All we want is chicken wings and lumber. At least according to the market. A productivity hack that lets you celebrate your accomplishments instead of wallowing in frustration about your unfinished tasks. And space coins. I somehow have multiple stories about space coins for you today. Sponsors: America Dissected, americadissected.com Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: Why is there chicken wing shortage? How Covid-19 spurred a rise in chicken wing prices, explained. (Vox) Gummy Bears and Candy Bars Are Casualties of the Pandemic (Wired) Wood prices are out of control. I went to a sawmill that explains why. (Slate) Why are lumber prices skyrocketing? The lumber shortage and housing boom, explained. (Vox) Fri. 12/18 - The Business of X-Mas Trees & How COVID Changed Science (Kottke Ride Home) Forget To-Do Lists. You Really Need a 'Got Done' List (Wired) SpaceX is literally sending DOGE to the moon. Here's what that actually means. (Mashable) SpaceX to Launch DOGE-1 to the Moon! (PR News Wire) US Quarters to Honor Maya Angelou and Sally Ride (Kottke) Call for Recommendations: Prominent American Women and the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.8	Welcome to the Kotki Ride Home for Monday, May 10th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.
0:57.7	America is off candy. All we want is chicken wings and lumber, at least according to the markets.
1:06.2	A productivity hack that lets you celebrate your accomplishments instead of wallowing in frustration
1:12.3	about your unfinished tasks. And space coins. I somehow have multiple stories about space coins for you
1:22.1	today. So here are some cool things from the news today.
1:38.1	Seemingly random shortages and surpluses continue to make themselves known as the effects of the pandemic rage on.
1:40.7	A recent one I saw was chicken wings.
1:46.2	According to Vox, a combination of a rise in food delivery, a popular sense of supporting local restaurants, and some jurisdictions requiring food with takeout alcohol orders,
1:52.4	means the U.S. reached the highest demand for chicken in years. But that circumstances surrounding
1:59.7	the pandemic as well as the record cold weather in the southern U.S. this year means that our reserves of chicken are also the lowest they've been in a decade.
2:09.7	While major corporations and local mom and pop shops compete for the same supply, you may notice that wings from major brands, like chain pizza places, are
2:18.6	staying the same, but the price at your local bar may have gone up substantially if wings
2:24.2	have remained on the menu at all. But hey, if you're missing your wings, there's another
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