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🗓️ 26 December 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | Earlier this year, Greta Thunberg became the youngest human to ever be named Time Magazine's |
0:07.3 | person of the year. |
0:09.6 | It was a big year for Greta, but she wouldn't want all the attention. |
0:13.0 | She'd want the attention to be on climate change, and it was a big year for that too. |
0:17.9 | We had climate strikes this year, climate summit, students walked out of classes around |
0:22.8 | the world, and there's no denying that many of the people who participated were inspired |
0:29.0 | by Greta. |
0:30.0 | We ran an episode about her back in September, and now that time's made it official that |
0:35.0 | this was her year, we thought we'd revisit it. |
0:38.1 | The episode began with the big news of the week. |
0:41.7 | It might sound familiar. |
0:45.1 | This was a real banner week for President Donald Trump. |
1:01.8 | He spent most of it denying any wrongdoing, then released a White House record of himself |
1:07.4 | doing something that looked quite wrong, then he casually praised how, in another time, |
1:13.1 | the people who complained about his wrongdoing might have been executed. |
1:17.9 | With all the whistle blowing and impeachment talk, it's easy to forget that the President |
1:23.0 | also made fun of a 16-year-old girl this week. |
1:27.5 | We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales |
1:34.7 | of eternal economic growth. |
1:37.4 | How dare you! |
1:41.2 | It was thought to a tweet that contained a long clip of that speech, President Trump seemingly |
1:46.7 | mocked Tuneberg. |
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