The value of “third places”
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
A “third place” is where people hang out when they’re not at home or work, and they’re becoming increasingly important for building community and connection. Guest host Reema Khrais explains why we’re hearing a lot more about them these days and shares the story behind her own third place. But first, we’ll discuss the knock-on effects of falling birth rates across the globe, why some cities are lowering speed limits, and why we don’t recommend throwing darts at stock listings.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Suddenly There Aren’t Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed.” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Why New York City is lowering its speed limit” from Vox
- “Why accidents aren’t accidental” from The Gray Area with Sean Illing
- “The Random Path to Stock-Market Riches” from The Wall Street Journal
- “If you want to belong, find a third place” from Vox
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| 0:00.0 | Let's do it. |
| 0:02.0 | Let's do this. |
| 0:03.0 | Oh, nice. |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Amy Scott. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. |
| 0:12.0 | Kai and Kimberly are both out today. |
| 0:15.0 | So you're with me and joining me |
| 0:17.2 | is the host of Marketplace's. |
| 0:18.6 | This is Uncomfortable Podcast, |
| 0:20.8 | the fabulous Rima Crates. |
| 0:22.0 | Hi Rima. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello, hi Amy. |
| 0:25.0 | Hi everyone, it's good to be back. |
| 0:26.0 | Thanks for joining us today. |
| 0:28.0 | It is Monday, May 13th, and it's good to talk to you, Amy, it's been a while, I feel like. I know. And I'm not sure we've done this show together. So this is a treat for me. Yeah, this is nice. So today we're going to do some news and some smiles so let's start with the news |
| 0:43.6 | Rima what have you been looking at today? All right I'll go first so for my news |
| 0:49.5 | item I want to talk about the global panic around the falling fertility rate, which I know has been mentioned on this show in relation to other stories, but I saw this article in the Wall Street Journal this morning about |
| 1:03.6 | this topic about how birth rates are falling fast across countries you know across |
| 1:08.8 | levels of income levels of education and how world leaders do not like that and are scrambling to change that trend. of a big deal. But first, okay to back up I'm going to throw some stats your way. So in this |
| 1:27.2 | country the birth rate has been falling since the Great Recession today the |
| 1:32.3 | average American woman has 1.6 children which is |
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