The Good, Bad And Ugly Of The Pandemic Housing Market, Plus TikTok Under Fire

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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Home sales are up, but the number of people facing evictions is also up. Sam talks to The Indicator's Stacey Vanek Smith and Cardiff Garcia about the good and bad news of the housing market in a pandemic. Then, TikTok is massively popular around the world, but now it's under fire from the Trump Administration due to national security concerns. We hear from NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn about the latest on the social media upstart and what a proposed ban has to do with China and user data.

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0:00.0	We're tracking tomorrow at 10 a.m.
0:03.8	Is that the friend?
0:05.0	Aren't we tracking now?
0:06.5	We're doing this chill right now.
0:08.2	Yeah.
0:09.2	Oh, I didn't know that.
0:10.9	We're pre-recording it.
0:12.0	Oh my god.
0:12.9	I didn't know that.
0:13.7	I was like, this was like the pre interview thing or whatever.
0:16.9	Okay, hang on.
0:17.8	Let me go.
0:18.6	No.
0:19.5	This is not, are you serious?
0:21.8	This is not a drill card.
0:23.8	I was not a drill.
0:25.5	I was so relaxed.
0:26.3	I was like, whatever.
0:27.5	This is a meaty thong.
0:29.3	Okay, this is, this is a whole new thing.
0:33.8	Hey y'all, this is Sounds Not Betty.
0:36.7	This week on the show, the good and bad news
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