The rise of the podcaster’s political capital
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Vice President Kamala Harris has been sitting down with popular podcasts like the “The Breakfast Club,” Call Her Daddy,” and The Howard Stern Show. We’ll get into what the campaign strategy can tell us about voters, our fragmented media environment and the future of news. Plus, lower interest rates mean the end of a golden period for savers. And, the return of panda diplomacy and a new life for a beloved maple tree.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Harris Slams Trump in Interview With Charlamagne Tha God: 5 Takeaways” from The New York Times
- “Former President Barack Obama’s Team Clarifies His Recent Comments Made Toward Black Men” from The Shade Room
- “Savers Bid a Sad Farewell to Higher Yields” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Georgia voters motivated by Harris-Trump contest flock to polls in record numbers on first day” from GPB News
- “D.C.’s new giant pandas arrived at National Zoo: Meet Qing Bao and Bao Li” from The Washington Post
- “A Beloved Maple Tree Had to Come Down, But It Lives On” from The New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Juan Carlos just nodded at me, so I guess we're starting. |
| 0:04.0 | Because that's the way it works around. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Kyle Rizdall, |
| 0:11.0 | welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:16.0 | Thank you for joining us on this Wednesday. |
| 0:17.8 | It is October the 16th. |
| 0:19.6 | We are getting so close to this election. |
| 0:21.6 | Believe. Well, we're in this election. Believe. |
| 0:23.0 | Well, we're in this election, I should say. |
| 0:26.0 | News today, some smiles. |
| 0:28.0 | Let us begin with the news, Kimberly Adams, ready go. |
| 0:31.0 | Well, mine is about the fact that this election has already begun and it is |
| 0:36.0 | starting with a lot of energy. There's a lot of reporting coming out of |
| 0:40.8 | Georgia that Georgia early voters are just gangbusters. More than 300,000 |
| 0:47.3 | people cast a ballot on Tuesday and that was just at like early voting locations, not even counting the people who did mail-in voting. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm reading here from Georgia Public Broadcasting. The previous record was 136,000 votes on the first day of advance voting in 2020. |
| 1:05.0 | So that's like more than double early voting and they are saying that so far |
| 1:10.3 | the voting on you know today is also looking very very busy which is you know |
| 1:16.0 | this could have been to make me smile too love people voting and I think it's |
| 1:19.7 | amazing that people are taking this very seriously and getting out there making sure they have a voting plan by getting you know in line day one if you have a problem you know it potentially gives you time to resolve it if there's an issue. |
| 1:33.6 | So I think that is just like great news. |
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