“The virus is no longer in charge of the economy”
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Earlier today, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a “next phase” pandemic plan that includes easing restrictions and focusing on prevention and readiness for any future COVID-19 surges. Plus, a couple of shell-shaking climate updates and some auto-related Make Me Smiles to wrap up this Hollowed Out Shell Thursday.
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Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:
- Sea-level rise will rise one foot along U.S. coastlines by 2050, government says from The Washington Post
- Western ‘Megadrought’ Is the Worst in 1,200 Years from Scientific American
- What does California’s drought mean for the rest of the country? from Marketplace
- A Third of America’s Economy Is Concentrated in Just 31 Counties from Bloomberg
- Covid Live Updates: California Unveils Plan to Treat Coronavirus as Manageable Risk from The New York Times
- Cargo Ship Full of Porsches, Bentleys and VWs Is On Fire and Adrift in the Atlantic [UPDATED] from The Drive
- Taras Grescoe’s Twitter thread about Paris’ car-free zone
- Here are 11 more cities that have joined the car-free revolution from Fast Company
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let's get the whole countdown. |
| 0:02.3 | Drufflin Thorpe is actually in charge of this entire podcast, people. |
| 0:05.8 | We say Bridget is, but it's really trolling. |
| 0:07.8 | Here we go. |
| 0:08.8 | There we go. |
| 0:09.8 | There we go. |
| 0:10.8 | Hey everybody, I'm Connor. |
| 0:11.8 | Rizzo, welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 0:14.8 | Making Today Makes Sense is what we do on this pod. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Samantha Fields. |
| 0:23.0 | Today is hollowed out Shell Thursday. |
| 0:26.2 | We're going to share some news stories and some Make Me Smiles, and then we'll all be |
| 0:29.4 | on our way. |
| 0:30.4 | Hey, Kai, how's your shell feeling today? |
| 0:32.9 | You know, it's okay. |
| 0:34.8 | It's okay. |
| 0:35.8 | I went to my knee surgeon this morning. |
| 0:36.8 | You said you're good to go, so that's nice. |
| 0:38.6 | It's 72 degrees in sunny here in LA. |
| 0:40.6 | It's been raining in past couple of days. |
| 0:42.1 | So, you know, I don't know. |
| 0:45.2 | We got some sun here in New York too. |
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