SCOOP: "Moon Bathing" & Party Politics ~ What You Need To Know For The Week Ahead

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Jenna Lee

Education, News

5 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Plus ~ Is it Democrat or Democratic? You'll hear a lot of both this week – We explain!

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✓ 0:00: Rare super blue moon

✓ 4:00: The Democratic National Convention

✓ 6:00: On our radar around the world

✓ 7:00: Ukraine on the offensive

✓ 8:00: The Middle East, including ceasefire talks and expected protests at the DNC

✓ 12:00: July 2024 Border Numbers show declines - with a caveat.

✓ 17:00: What’s in a name? “Chicago.”

✓ 21:00: What does “blue wall” mean?

✓ 23:00: An editorial quandry at SmartHER News ... heavy-hitting speakers at the DNC.

✓ 27:00: Soundbites from two political operatives on two different sides of the political spectrum: David Axelrod and Kellyanne Conway.

✓ 30:00: Is it Democrat or Democratic?

✓ 32:00: We revisit Elon Musk’s interview with fmr. President Trump. We share a quick snippet and explain why.

✓ 34:00: Is hope the secret ingredient to a winning campaign? Send us your thoughts!

SHOW NOTES

Political Resources Jenna likes ... Ballotpedia and PolitiFact

Rare Super Blue Moon Peaks Today (SmartHER News)

July Border Numbers Released, Shows Decline in Encounters (SmartHER News)

Pod Save America (language warning)

Elon Musk’s interview with fmr. President Trump

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0:00.0	Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news. My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News.
0:11.5	Well, it's going to be a week full of politics and more politics, and then maybe just a little bit of a sprinkle of
0:22.3	politics towards the end of the week. We have the Democratic and National Convention taking
0:25.3	place in Chicago, Illinois. And that's really going to absorb a lot of the headlines and
0:31.5	drive much of the news this week. We have a lot of different stories that we're going to try to
0:35.6	fill in a little bit before we get to the politics, at least in this broadcast, because I want to make sure that we do
0:42.0	keep our lens wide as we're looking at the world going into the back half of really of 2024.
0:50.0	We have something that we're all sharing while we talk about politics as perhaps a topic that can divide us.
0:57.4	I want to talk about something that we all share this week.
1:00.7	That's pretty spectacular.
1:02.4	And if you haven't had the opportunity to go out and look at the moon this week, I promise you, you will not be disappointed.
1:08.2	I know there's some tough weather really around the country that could make this difficult, but just so you know, the moon will appear full for the next couple days. And there's a reason why it's really important for you to check this out. I took this photograph actually last night here in Texas. The moon was so big and bright. It almost looked like the sun in the sky. And I had noticed it in the last several
1:28.1	days. We just happened to have clear weather. And it was so stunning. It was hard to ignore.
1:32.6	So I thought, well, maybe there's a story there. And of course, curiosity does lead you to
1:36.6	find stories periodically. And this one's actually important because we're not going to see
1:40.6	another moon like this until perhaps, they think, 2037.
1:46.9	So more than a decade before we see something similar.
1:50.2	It's not that we're not going to see full moons.
1:51.9	Typically, we see full moons at least once a month.
1:54.6	But we're not necessarily going to see this combination.
1:56.9	So what we're looking at is a super blue moon.
2:04.5	A super moon appears kind of bigger and brighter in the sky because of the way the orbit is, that the moon is slightly closer to Earth than it is at other
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