The Uncertain Hour dives into red tape

The Uncertain Hour

Marketplace

Government, News

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2017

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Join us this season as we go down the strange rabbit holes of history to find the origins of one of the most important but least understood battles in our economy today. We’ll bring you tales of peanut butter, “unelected bureaucrats,” the federal register, and a youth jazz orchestra. It’s all to make sense of that unassuming buzzword that shapes every moment of our lives: federal regulations.

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0:00.0	Okay. Hello, hello, anyone there?
0:05.0	Hi, I'm Chrissy Clark, senior correspondent for Marketplace's Wealth and Poverty Desk,
0:10.1	and on the next season of the uncertain hour.
0:14.1	The last thing he said to me before he left was, Peter, take my advice.
0:20.8	Some of them can take decades to write.
0:23.8	Whatever you do, don't ever have anything to do with peanut butter.
0:29.1	Some of them sound strange.
0:31.3	It's prohibited to sell a pink carcass if it has a pronounced sexual odor.
0:36.7	But if it's anything less than pronounced, you can sell it as food. It's okay.
0:41.8	And some of them save lives.
0:44.2	There will be people who will not die prematurely.
0:46.5	There will be people who, when they get old, will be able to have the lung power to lift up their grandchildren.
0:52.3	And together, if it weren't for rules, they shape.
0:56.4	We wouldn't have sea balls.
0:57.7	Every moment of our day.
0:59.6	We still have blood in our paint and our gasoline.
1:02.9	Every breath we breathe.
1:04.5	And the Kaya Hoga River would still be on fire.
1:07.3	What are these rules we're talking about?
1:09.7	Red tape.
1:10.3	Government regulation.
1:11.5	Red tape.
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