The Year in Sound: An Audio Time Capsule of 2018

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🗓️ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Between the government shutdowns that bookended the year, there were furious standoffs over a border wall; shootings at a high school, a bar, a grocery store, a synagogue; devastating wildfires in California. Handshakes and promises shared with autocrats in North Korea and Russia. Powerful men brought down by #MeToo or trying to make a comeback, and a Supreme Court nominee accused, then elevated to the bench. Questions about a murdered journalist, about election interference, about how much Facebook knew. A midterm vote that delivered one of the most diverse — and divided — governments in American history. Here’s what 2018 sounded like. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	We're going to have a great year. It will be a fantastic 2018. We're off to a very good
0:21.9	start as you know with the great tech scuts and NWAR and getting rid of the individual
0:26.9	mandate, which was very, very unpopular as you know. But we are going to have a tremendous
0:32.3	year. Stock market I think is going to continue to go up. Companies are going to continue
0:37.9	to come into the country and they're doing it now soon to be a record clip. So we look
0:44.2	forward to seeing you inside.
0:46.2	2018 starting off just as 2017 ended a flurry of news and controversies.
0:57.4	All right, so President Trump went on a tweet storm on his first day back at work, attacking
1:02.1	his own justice department as a deep state secretly working to undermine his presidency.
1:07.8	Developing now a new war of words with North Korea. President Trump taunting North Korea's
1:11.8	leader Kim Jong Un regarding the size of his nuclear launch button. Raging in a tweet that
1:17.9	he has a bigger and more powerful nuclear button in North Korea. But it doesn't stop there.
1:22.7	The President tonight apparently uncoorking another astonishing statement. The President
1:27.0	is teaching little kids a new word.
1:29.4	Quote, why are we having all these people from a bad word?
1:33.2	Black hole.
1:34.2	S-hole.
1:35.2	Shit hole countries. Why do we want these people from, quote, all these shit hole countries
1:38.8	here?
1:42.8	It appears the federal government is headed for a shutdown in the day one of the government
1:47.2	shutdown. And right now, no end in sight.
1:50.3	The main issue is immigration, Democrats want legal status for 800,000 over the issue of
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