The early bird dance club business is booming
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🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
It’s a New York edition of “Make Me Smart”! Marketplace’s Kristin Schwab joins Kimberly in the NYC bureau to discuss a growing trend in the city that never sleeps: Nightlife is winding down a lot earlier these days, and that might be good for businesses. But first, why Tornado Alley may be migrating east, and a deeper look into the legal loopholes of campaign finance. Plus, the rescue of an orphaned baby elephant is making us smile.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Tornadoes shifting east in the U.S., study finds, putting more people at risk” from The Washington Post
- “Everything You Need to Know About the New ‘Twisters’ Movie” from Parade
- “$800K transfer from billionaire donor to US Chamber raises curtain on dark money” from The Hill
- “Reservations at 5 p.m.? Why the early bird dinner is cool again” from The Globe and Mail
- “Forget Partying Till the Wee Hours. Newlyweds Want to End Early.” from The New York Times
- “This dance party made for elder Millennials ends at 10pm” from Time Out
- “6 p.m. dinner reservations are losing their stigma” from Marketplace
- “The Rescue of Toto” from Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
- “African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls” from Nature Ecology & Evolution
- “Scientists used AI to figure out elephants have names for themselves” from Business Insider
We love to hear from you. Send your questions and comments to makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.
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| 0:00.0 | Five four three two one |
| 0:09.0 | Hello everyone I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:14.0 | Kai is out today, so joining me here in the New York Bureau is Marketplace's |
| 0:19.0 | Kristen Schwab. Hey Kristen, hey Kimberly, it's great to be here for my first make me smart. Yes, welcome to the show. Yeah, and thanks for joining us. Everyone is tuning in on a Wednesday today. |
| 0:29.6 | In the very cold studio, but we are trying to stay cozy. |
| 0:33.2 | Yes, got a blanket here. |
| 0:35.2 | It's like I'm on my couch. |
| 0:36.6 | Excellent, excellent, so you can be comfy. |
| 0:38.6 | All right, today we are going to do what we usually do. |
| 0:40.9 | Some news first and then some smiles. So Kristen what caught your |
| 0:44.6 | attention today? Yeah well today I saw something about extreme weather events |
| 0:52.0 | which I feel like we're talking about a lot lately. |
| 0:54.7 | Often, yeah, often we're talking about heat, fire, and flooding, but I grew up in the Midwest, |
| 1:00.9 | so did you. And so we know that it's tornado season. |
| 1:06.6 | And so that region that we call Tornado Alley, |
| 1:09.0 | which has a lot of different definitions, |
| 1:11.0 | but is sort of that south to north stretch of Texas to Minnesota. |
| 1:16.1 | Researchers say it's actually moving east. |
| 1:19.4 | So scientists at the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology have been studying this and they've looked at about 70 years of data. |
| 1:30.0 | And it seems that the highest concentration of tornado activity has moved from the eye of the |
| 1:34.9 | storm, you know, collectively from over Oklahoma, has shifted over to Mississippi. |
| 1:43.4 | What? |
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