Thoughts on the queen, and more
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
From the death of Queen Elizabeth to lifesaving vaccines, we’re mostly talking about news from the other side of the pond today. Plus, we’ll discuss the economic power of royal fashion, and what’s Jerome Powell thinking? Kai’s got answers!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- Opinion | “Mourn the Queen, Not Her Empire” from The New York Times
- “Dark Truths About Britain’s Imperial Past” from The New York Times
- Tweet thread on the complex legacy of the British royal family
- “The economic power of royal fashion” from Marketplace
- “New malaria vaccine is world-changing, say scientists” from BBC News
- “Jumbo Fed Rate Hike Is in Play as Powell Sticks to Hawkish View” from Bloomberg
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | One Carlos loves us. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Kimberly Adams and welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make today make sense. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Carlos, thanks for joining us on this Thursday. |
| 0:17.4 | Yes, we are going to talk about the news and then end with some Make Me smiles. |
| 0:21.9 | Shall we get started with the news fix? |
| 0:24.6 | Which I guess I'll go first with the obvious news. |
| 0:27.6 | Which is not a Make Me Smile. |
| 0:29.9 | But the passing of Queen Elizabeth today is obviously the big news story. |
| 0:36.7 | And man, what that woman has seen and I guess ruled over in her life longest reigning. |
| 0:46.0 | I know definitely British monarch, but I think one of the longest reigning monarchs in the |
| 0:49.7 | world that have to be. |
| 0:51.3 | One of, I don't believe the longest, but certainly top like three or something globally ever. |
| 0:56.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.3 | And I, you know, I was thinking about this today and just sort of she oversaw pretty much |
| 1:05.0 | the decline of the British Empire and like the entire, you know, opulent wealth of that |
| 1:12.0 | family that came from these very sort of extractive relationships with the colonies. |
| 1:19.8 | And, you know, watching the royal family kind of shrink and shrink and shrink and its |
| 1:24.9 | influence over her lifetime must have been something to sort of adjust to these new realities. |
| 1:32.0 | And she was so, you know, dedicated to that role and being the face and the symbol that |
| 1:39.8 | people needed while trying to sort of balance the weird separation they have over there |
| 1:44.3 | between sort of the government and the monarchy. |
| 1:47.8 | But what's been very interesting for me to observe today is the very complicated and sometimes |
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