Washington’s looming deadlines (note the plural)

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🗓️ 30 September 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It’s going to be a tense weekend on Capitol Hill. Congress not only has the government shutdown deadline to deal with, it also has deadlines that affect the Federal Aviation Administration and the farm bill. We’ll explain what’s going on. Plus, the hosts weigh in on the Taylor Swift effect and “The Golden Bachelor” in a fresh round of our favorite game: Half Full / Half Empty!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Airline passengers could feel the bite as Congress nears two missed deadlines” from Politico

- “Rare Senate spat threatens farm bill push with House in shutdown chaos” from Politico

- “Biden offers dire warnings about Trump in democracy-focused address” from PBS Newshour

- “Gen. Mark Milley Warns of Fealty to Dictators, in Exit Speech Aimed at Trump” from The Wall Street Journal

- “‘The Golden Bachelor’ premiere may put some realness back in reality TV” from MSNBC

- “Reality (TV) bites” from Marketplace

- “Majority of national parks will close and annual Fat Bear Week canceled if government shuts down” from CNN

- “Bringing back the lost art of office etiquette” from Marketplace

- “Taylor Swift effect: Chiefs ticket sales increase, plus Travis Kelce sees huge spike in jersey sales” from CBS Sports

- “Restaurant diners are eating earlier than ever” from Marketplace

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0:51.5	and i'm Kimberly Adams and thank you everybody for joining us for our
0:55.8	podcast as well as those who joined us on the youtube live stream it's friday
1:00.3	and that means we are here for economics on tap our weekly happy hour episode
1:06.7	we're gonna do some news we'll take a break we'll do a little half full half empty
1:10.4	with your john stat but we will do as we always do on a friday drinks i'm
1:14.8	having nothing i have nothing going on here number one because i'm in drinking
1:18.3	water all day and i'm a little overhydrator if you know what i mean
1:21.9	and number and and number two uh Kimberly Adams what are you drinking
1:26.1	are you gonna need another mid-show bathroom break like during the lunch
1:29.2	hey now come on while there are no speakers in the bathroom in my house so it could
1:32.4	be a little challenging also this should only be like 20 minutes that show went
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