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Tom Merritt's 'Know a Little More' - About Taiwan

Politics Politics Politics

Justin Robert Young

History, News

4.6870 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Tom Merritt closes his week on Politics Politics Politics by sharing an episode of his podcast, Know a Little More. This deep dive into Taiwan will help you understand one of the most vexing political situations in the world today.

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This is made possible by Oh them Bones, Daily Tech News Show, Andy Beach, and Craig. Egg. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

0:31.0

Chammel, chamo, chamo. Hello and welcome to a special feed drop, that's what we call it in the podcast biz, where you take over somebody's feed and you drop in one of your

0:45.5

own episodes. This is Tom Merritt, substitute host for politics, politics, politics.

0:50.8

I'll be handing the baton over to Kevin Ryan to go forth into the politics journey for the next week until Justin gets back.

1:00.0

But we're going to finish the week with one of my own episodes. This comes from a series I do called

1:05.6

know a little more and actually I work on this with Justin. I haven't always but in the past couple of seasons,

1:21.0

Dog and Pony Show Audio has come in and helped improve the production value, kind of help brainstorm better ways of telling the stories and everything. And this past season, if you go to know a little more

1:24.9

dotcom, is all about something called the mother of all demos, which kind of provided a framework

1:31.5

for the entire season to be about technologies that came out of that.

1:37.0

The season before was a little less focused, and so I wonder if some of you may have missed even if you were

1:46.2

no a little more subscribers an episode I did about Taiwan I feel like this

1:51.2

episode in particular is great to give to the politics politics

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audience. I did it because Taiwan is essential to the technology scene and so I

2:02.1

wanted to explain this is why it is in such an

2:06.4

odd position in the world and what effect it will have on chips but But to be honest, the majority of the episode, 95% of the

2:16.2

episode is just explaining, here's what happened in Taiwan. Here's why you hear things like, well, Taiwan considers itself to actually be China, and

2:28.5

mainland China doesn't like that very much.

2:32.3

And what does that even mean when an island that's

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