The work that awaits Congress in March

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

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Summary

Next month, Congress has a jam-packed to-do list, including funding the government, the ongoing impeachment proceedings of the Homeland Security secretary and high-stakes congressional primaries. We’ll explain all the reasons March is about to be a doozy in Washington. Plus, the work and money behind TikTok’s viral trick-shot videos. And the inspiration behind the theme music for Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “35 Hours for a 10-Second Clip: The Art of the TikTok Trick Shot” from The New York Times

- “Editor’s Note: Never mind the Ides of March, beware all of March” from Roll Call

- “The rhythmic world of Koji Kondo, maestro of Mario” from The Washington Post

- “$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School” from The New York Times

- Berkshire Hathaway Inc Class A stock price from Google Finance

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0:00.0	Open link. I'm ready. I'm here. I'll be there in like two seconds. There we go.
0:04.0	No audio. Turning on the camera.
0:08.0	There we go.
0:09.0	Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make today make sense
0:14.3	when we are graced by the appearance of Kyrizdol. I didn't even dress for it or
0:19.2	anything. I'm Kyi Rizdol. Thanks for joining us on this Monday. It is the 26th of February,
0:24.2	and yes, you can see us on YouTube, I guess.
0:27.2	I don't even know where we put these.
0:28.3	Our social team puts them out.
0:29.4	Anyway, anyway.
0:31.0	It's always fun.
0:32.0	Yes. So today, since it's Monday, we're going to do some news and some
0:36.4	smiles, and we will start with the news as we do. Kai, what's your news?
0:41.0	So basically I've got two smiles today,
0:42.9	but one of them I put in the news because,
0:46.4	number one, we all know what the big news is.
0:48.0	There's nothing, you know, earth shaking out there happening
0:51.3	that everybody listening to this podcast hasn't already seen or heard go by in their feeds or what have you.
0:56.1	So I will not supposed to tell people things I don't know.
0:59.4	That said, there was a totally fascinating article in the New York Times this past weekend.
1:03.5	I think it was Saturday about the, it was behind the scenes basically of how those
1:10.1	Tik-Tock trick shot videos. You try to say that 10 times fast gets made. Get made. How much time it takes? How these guys, because most of them are guys do it. We should also probably interrogate why it's guys who do this stuff.
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