Save the good stuff. Save the good stuff. Oh, oh my god. All right, Bridget's in the control room and there's

canned bonion. Good God. Hi everybody. I'm Kai Rizdall. I think I don't know. Welcome back to Make Me Smart. Where we make today make sense.

I'm mid-dependent Moni and I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us on this Thursday.

Today we just have some news fixes and make me smile. It's already making the both of us chuckle.

It is a make me smile for the ages and we're all going straight to HE double toothpicks but that's a whole different thing.

Two-thicks not hockey sticks? Oh, I don't I always heard toothpicks but any who?

Two-thicks are straight hockey sticks have. Well, we're not doing capital HE double hockey sticks. I'm going to lowercase HE.

That's a good point. I never thought of it that way. I mean it's a bad enough place to begin with. I don't need to have a capitalized.

I have only ever heard HE double hockey sticks, not HE double toothpicks.

As I recall you had a more faith-based upbringing than I did. Probably a very big shirt.

So it would be an all-cat. That's right. It would be an all-cat kind of thing. Anyway, let's get to it. You do the news first.

Go ahead. You got more than I do. All right. So I have two. It's just one of my double links on it.

Okay. Today there was news out that the United States is being given greater access to some military bases in the Philippines.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was over there and made this big announcement that the United States is going to be able to basically rotate troops through these military bases in the South China Sea.

Why does this matter? Because it's basically a response to the growing frustration, bringsmanship, fear of war, and other things that are going on with the United States relationship with China and China's growing footprint, literally and figuratively, given that they're building islands out there in the South China Sea.

The reason this jumped out to me was because we were on here talking not, but a couple of weeks ago, about the Biden administration trying to sort of tamp things down with China and smooth things over in terms of trade and business relationships.

But now when it comes to at least the military side of things, they are still moving forward as if China is a global, not necessarily threat, but definitely like some chest-puffing happening.

I think threat is not too strong or right? That's absolutely true. I think that's definitely true.

I'll take the advice of the Navy guy.

So my other one, I don't have to tell people that it's Black History Month, which often results in some rather trite coverage in various media outlets, which I have to admit gotten significantly better in the last couple of years.

But one of the things that's been happening is sort of a re-examination of a lot of the things that way, the way that many things have been covered in the past.

So you have like the New York Times, I think, going back and kind of redoing obituaries for people who should have had them at the time.

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