Our hollowed-out shells make a surprise appearance
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Hit the dark place sting, we’re discussing some news stories that got our shells feeling a little hollow. First, residents of Jackson, Mississippi, have no clean water. Though help may be finally on the way, we still have questions. Also, a new survey shows just how devastating the pandemic was for students in the classroom. But we’ve at least got a Make Me Smile, thanks to a listener email on the physics of dragons. Get ready to laugh cry.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading” from The New York Times
- “Who Would Like to Explain to the Class WHY Jackson, Miss., Has No Water?” from Esquire
- “Water pump installed at O.B. Curtis Water Plant helping water pressure in Jackson” from Clarion Ledger
- “Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’” from Associated Press
If you want to send us your delightful voice memos and emails, you can reach us at makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave a voice message at 508-U-B-SMART.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kimberley Adams and welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Kyle Rizdo, thanks for being here on a Thursday. |
| 0:15.7 | I think it is, yes, Thursday. |
| 0:18.0 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:19.0 | Although, at my time zones are all mixed up because I took the Red Eye last night and so |
| 0:22.7 | I don't know what time it is anywhere. |
| 0:26.4 | So yeah. |
| 0:27.4 | I took the Red Eye all the time, I can no longer do that or I just don't have to do it anymore |
| 0:30.6 | so I don't. |
| 0:31.6 | You know, when my kids were little, I took the Red Eye all the time. |
| 0:34.4 | Now, forget it. |
| 0:36.4 | Wait, what is your kids being little have to do with it? |
| 0:41.2 | Well, when the kids were little and I had to go to like New York, right, I could, here |
| 0:46.3 | in LA, I could have dinner with them and get them to bed and blah, blah, blah, and hang |
| 0:52.1 | around a little while and then at 10 o'clock a night go to the airport and take the Red Eye |
| 0:56.5 | and do whatever I had to do in New York. |
| 0:59.1 | And now they don't care, right? |
| 1:01.1 | They're just like, yeah, wait, you were gone? |
| 1:03.4 | You were gone for a couple of days, you know, and you're like, all right, fine, I'm not |
| 1:06.1 | killing myself on the Red Eye anymore. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.0 | Fair, fair. |
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