SOS at the IRS

Make Me Smart

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

President Trump will replace Billy Long as the head of the Internal Revenue Service, less than two months since he was confirmed. This comes after months of turmoil at the IRS. We’ll explain. And, did you know could opt out of facial recognition software when going through airport security? Plus, we’ll weigh in on Instagram’s new map feature and more during a round of Half Full/Half Empty!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

"Trump Is Removing Billy Long as the I.R.S. Head 2 Months After He Was Confirmed" from The New York Times
"The Comply To Fly?" from The Algorithmic Justice League
"This wedding season, some couples are using their registries to give back" from Marketplace
"Should buy now, pay later factor into credit scores?" from Marketplace
"The New York Post is launching a California edition. Why?" from The Washington Post
"Instagram Map lets your friends, and possibly exes, track your every move'" from The Washington Post

Tell us about your experience with TSA’s facial recognition system. Leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART or email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Okay, dokey.
0:08.2	Hello, everyone.
0:09.3	I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:10.3	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense.
0:13.6	And I'm Megan McCarty Carino.
0:15.5	Thanks everyone for listening or watching on the YouTube live stream.
0:19.4	Today is Friday, August 8th. Welcome to Economics on Tap.
0:24.7	Yes, it's our weekly Friday happy hour, because we all need a little happy at the end of the kind of weeks.
0:29.8	We've been having, so we're going to do some news. We're going to play a game. But first, Megan, what are you drinking?
0:35.5	All right. So I kind of slammed this one together with whatever I had around, but it's a contrato bitter spritz.
0:43.6	I'm very into sprits because they're like a very low ABD thing that I can handle doing the live stream with.
0:51.1	And contrato bitter is a bitter.
0:53.8	It's an Italian bitter kind of in the family of like a Campari.
0:58.6	But as you can see, it is not as electric colored as Campari.
1:02.0	It's sort of a more subtle and sophisticated take on like a Campari bitter is how I'm going to put it.
1:09.7	Do you know what it's made of?
1:14.2	24 herbs and the proprietary herbs and spices and, yeah.
1:21.6	So it's not the artichoke one.
1:23.7	It's not the artichoke one, although I still do have a large amount of that, but I was trying to mix it up so that I don't always have the Chinars prints.
1:34.0	What have you got going on?
1:36.2	So I also did what is sometimes called one of my kitchen cocktails where it was like, what do I have in my fridge that I can throw together?
1:45.7	And so I have some lemon mint shrub from this company that called Element.
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