The lobbyists who spend more money on gun rights than the NRA

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🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Move over, NRA. There’s a new gun rights group that’s spending more money on lobbying Congress. On the show today, we’re talking about the National Shooting Sports Foundation and its surprising connection to Kimberly’s neighborhood bar. Plus, more crypto scams, and a Texas teen wins the national spelling bee. C-o-n-g-r-a-t-u-l-a-t-i-o-n-s-!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

“Gun industry group in Connecticut outpaces NRA in lobbying, hopes to protect access to semi-automatic weapons” from WBUR
“New Analysis Finds Consumers Reported Losing More than $1 Billion in Cryptocurrency to Scams since 2021” from the Federal Trade Commission
“Fetterman says he ‘almost died’ after ignoring heart condition” from The Washington Post
Former Trump Adviser Charged With Contempt for Defying Jan. 6 Subpoena from The New York Times
“Texas teenager is the new champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee” from NPR

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0:00.0	All right. Waking good going. Oh, we're going to. All right. Let's do it. Let's do it.
0:10.8	Hey everybody, I'm Kyle. I'm Rizzo. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.
0:17.4	And I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you everyone for joining this Friday economics on tap. And it is
0:23.1	officially my fault that we're starting a minute late. But whether you are joining us on YouTube
0:28.4	live stream listening to the podcast or in discord or whatever you may roam welcome glad to
0:35.3	have you with us and Kai what are you drinking? Well, I think for the second week out of three,
0:41.0	I'm having a cup of coffee in my coffee mug because two things I slept like garbage last night,
0:48.0	which is what happens when you're just graduated high school seniors, garbage till when he's out
0:53.5	till two, three in the morning. So there's that. Was that just worry or were you out with him?
1:02.9	No, I was not out with him. I haven't seen through the morning on the on the staying
1:09.8	upside in a very long time. I didn't know graduation nights different, right? I mean, when he's
1:14.7	out on a Friday night with his friends and he's home at like midnight one o'clock, whatever,
1:17.7	that's all good. But I school graduation night, there's just some peril involved. And I was more
1:22.3	a tune as well as my wife than usual. You know, they're kids, right? They do stupid things. And
1:28.8	no matter how many times you say is they go out your kids decisions. Yes, my kids. Not this one
1:34.0	last night, which is good, but my kids previously, yes, absolutely. Anyways, so I slept like garbage.
1:40.2	And also to top it off, I have to drive out to the west side this afternoon to take some number two
1:44.9	back to school. So beer would not be good right now. Beer would not be good. That's a lot. What about you?
1:49.9	What do you do? That's a whole lot. Yeah. What do you do? Well, I, as I have mentioned,
1:54.4	am on the tail end of a little bit of a sinus infection slash cold slash being under the weather. So
2:00.8	I am having that hot toddy, which is a black tea with some dram buoy, which I would not drink straight
2:10.3	unlike you. But this is totally off topic. The cameras are swapped. I'm used to
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