SCOOP: Rage Bait, Retail Insights, & The Suspect In The Murder of the United Healthcare CEO Heads Back To Court
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Plus ~ Catch-up on the Trump administration changes to asylum policy in the aftermath of the attack on the National Guard in D.C., and bipartisan questions continue about military operations off the coast of Venezuela.
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
01:08 The Oxford Word of the Year: Rage Bait
03:50 A Funny Family Moment with a new dictionary (sorry Merriam-Webster!)
07:29 Economic Insights: Black Friday Spending
13:11 Key News Stories You Might Have Missed
20:35 Congress and Government Funding Issues
21:37 National Guard Tragedy and Terrorism Concerns
27:04 Asylum Process and Backlog Issues
27:52 Trump Administration's Policy Changes
30:33 Legal Challenges and Congressional Role
34:57 Operation Allies and Vetting Concerns
37:43 Narco Terrorism and Military Engagement
45:36 Military Code of Conduct Controversy
54:24 Final Thoughts and Viewer Engagement
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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 |
| 0:06.9 | Smarter News. Hi, everybody. Welcome to Scoop. I can't believe I'm actually saying this. |
| 0:17.1 | Welcome to Scoop. It is Monday, December 1st. Can you believe it? We were just talking about this on the before show show with our insiders, and it just feels like this year has been a total whirlwind. I feel like that's cliche to say out loud. Oftentimes we say how quickly the year has gone by, but there seems to be something different about 2025. I can't put my finger on it exactly. One of the things we talked about is just the amount of information, |
| 0:43.6 | digital and technological clutter that we have in our lives that is forcing us to multitask |
| 0:49.0 | on a whole other new level. And that helps kind of speed time along because suddenly your time is given to all of |
| 0:56.0 | these text messages, all of these breaking news headlines, all of these emails, all of these phone |
| 0:59.9 | calls. Now there's voice memos. Now there's all these things. It's just a lot. So I recognize that. |
| 1:05.6 | I acknowledge it. And one of the things we're trying to do here at Smart News is solve some of that |
| 1:09.7 | for you by sifting |
| 1:10.9 | through this information and really highlighting what you need to know and why it matters and get you |
| 1:15.8 | on your way. |
| 1:16.7 | Because at least we can have a little fun with this. |
| 1:18.2 | If we're going to have so much information, let's have some fun. |
| 1:20.8 | This is quite a fun thing to talk about here, which is the Oxford word of the year. |
| 1:26.0 | It's always interesting when they share what is the word |
| 1:31.6 | that they have chosen. This is from Oxford University Press. And let me go ahead and pull this up |
| 1:36.9 | for those of you who are watching on the live feed. But I thought you would appreciate this on the |
| 1:42.8 | podcast no matter where you are. |
| 1:44.6 | I think if I say this word, which by the way is two words and Oxford does address this, |
| 1:51.6 | but just so we're not confused with clickbait, which is one word. |
| 1:56.0 | The word of the year this year is rage bait. What is rage bait? Online content deliberately designed to |
| 2:04.8 | elicit anchor or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted |
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