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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: What are think tanks all about?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Think tanks? More like stink tanks! We're kidding. Think tanks do valuable work, when they operate in a non-partisan way of course. Learn all about the history of these heady institutions in this classic episode.

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This is the story of how a group of people brought music back to Afghanistan by creating their own version of American Idol.

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The joy they brought to the nation.

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You're free completely.

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No one is there to destroy you.

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The danger they endured.

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They said my head should be cut off.

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I'm John Legend.

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Listen to Afghan Star on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your

0:27.8

podcast. Guess what, Will? What's that, Mango? I've been trying to write a promo for our podcast part-time genius

0:34.8

But even though we've done over 250 episodes we don't really talk about murders or cults. I mean we did just cover the

0:41.6

Illuminati of cheese So I feel like that makes us pretty edgy

0:44.7

We also solve mysteries like how Chinese is your Chinese food and how do dollar stores make money

0:50.2

And then of course can you game a dog show.

0:53.6

So what you're saying is everyone should be listening.

0:56.4

Listen to Part-time Genius on the I Heart Radio app or wherever you get your podcast.

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Hey everybody, Josh here and for this week's select I've chosen our episode on

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think tanks from September 2018. It's a common misconception that our elected

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officials in Washington and the state capitals and everywhere else make the laws and the

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policy that they introduce. In most cases they do not do that. That's up to special interest

1:20.8

groups and once upon a time think tanks were one of those groups.

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And even accounting for political bent,

1:27.0

the policy they suggested lawmakers was sound and unbiased.

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