No Guts, No Lori
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-election bid on Tuesday, becoming the first one-term mayor of the city in 40 years. Lightfoot failed to capture enough votes to make it to the April 4th runoff, in a campaign marked by growing concerns over crime.
Drug maker Eli Lilly announced that it would cap the out-of-pocket cost of insulin it makes to $35, bringing relief for the millions of Americans who rely on it to treat diabetes. Vernessa Shih, the story bank director for the U.S. Surgeon General, joins us to discuss the impact that high insulin costs have on patient’s health, families, and finances.
And in headlines: a devastating train crash in Greece killed at least 38 people, the family of Kobe Bryant settled with Los Angeles County for $28.5 million, and hundreds of students walked out of class across Iowa to protest bills targeting LGBTQ youth in the Republican-led state.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, March 2nd. I'm Priyanka Arabindi. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm on the other side of the world. This is what a day where Priyanka is coming to |
| 0:12.3 | us live from under a pile of Los Angeles snow. |
| 0:15.3 | Yeah, you know what? The pile didn't actually form, but I am still taking it as an excuse |
| 0:19.9 | to wear a puffer jacket. I think I have a... |
| 0:21.9 | Yes! |
| 0:22.9 | I love that you own this stuff. Where else would you wear it? When else would you wear it? |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, intelligence officials have ruled out one theory behind the mysterious |
| 0:35.2 | element known as Havana Syndrome. Plus, hundreds of Iowa students walked out of school to |
| 0:40.6 | protest anti-LGBTQ legislation. |
| 0:43.6 | But first, the results are in from the first round of voting in Chicago's mayoral race, |
| 0:48.1 | and Mayor Lori Lightfoot became the first sitting mayor of Chicago to lose their re-election |
| 0:52.4 | bid in 40 years. Since none of the nine candidates managed to capture the 50% vote threshold, |
| 0:59.6 | the election will now advance to a runoff on April 4th. |
| 1:02.8 | I feel like this was an entirely unsurprising outcome for this primary, but tell us who is |
| 1:08.6 | still in the race, Priyanka. |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, so the runoff will be between the two candidates who received the largest shares |
| 1:14.4 | of vote. The first is former Chicago Public School CEO Paul Vales, who received nearly |
| 1:19.4 | 34%, and then there's Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, who received 20%. They are |
| 1:24.6 | both Democrats, though their positions definitely vary. |
| 1:28.0 | And just behind them, Lightfoot came in third with 17%. |
| 1:31.8 | That's completely what I expected in terms of the outcome. And yesterday, on Joy Readshow, |
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