Waypoints 20: Not As Advertised

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🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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It's a hell of a way to run a government on Waypoints this week. Join Rob, Patrick, and Natalie as they discuss a number of eye-opening investigative reports that have left them stunned lately. First, Patrick has been mesmerized by the saga of how local and state government in Wisconsin gave electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn one of the most lopsided deals in US history. It's a story told at the highest level by an article in Bloomberg Businessweek and at the ground level by a dramatic episode of Reply All that shows how a community tore itself apart for the distant promise of a factory. Next, Rob and Natalie have been reading ProPublica's haunting report on the USS Fitzgerald collision. How does one of the most advanced ships, with the best equipment, in one of the most prestigious fleets in the US Navy, end up falling victim to such a routine and preventable accident? There's no one clear answer, but a lot of contributing factors that add up to a portrait of a navy rotting away from the inside.

Discussed: Inside Wisconsin’s Disastrous $4.5 Billion Deal With Foxconn, The Inside Story of an American Warship Doomed by Its Own Navy

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0:00.0	Oh hello, it's Thursday and it's time to welcome you to Waypoints, where Waypoint staff
0:24.0	and friends take a break to Nerd Out and Deep Dive on the art culture and entertainment
0:27.4	have been inspiring and provoking us lately. Gather around the table this Thursday we've got Natalie Watson
0:36.6	and we've got Patrick Kruppet. I looked at Natalie, I made a mistake for Wayne. All right well,
0:49.2	this all worked out extremely well. Speaking of things working out well Patrick,
0:54.4	did you see the most innovative creative football play of 2019 so far?
1:00.9	Of the world? Yes, you know, it's maybe in history. You know, some people say you should be looking
1:08.6	towards where the ball should be going. Patrick Mahomes showed once in the NFL this year,
1:14.8	you actually don't. You don't have to look where you're throwing, but then the AF, the always
1:20.5	innovative. Now I'm on this bandwagon. One of their quarterbacks to realize, you know what?
1:25.7	Why even look forward left or right? Why not turn all the way around and toss the ball backwards
1:31.3	like it's a fucking bouquet. And just see if someone catches it and the receiver caught it.
1:39.3	This little play known as the Sigourney and that team has been practicing that for,
1:44.8	you know, well like all the teams in the AF, been practicing it for definitely a couple weeks.
1:50.9	That's that's about how well drilled these teams all look. But the amazing thing is that
1:55.6	that actually worked. And that seems to be the AAF in a nutshell. It is such a weird league,
2:01.9	Patrick, but I kind of can't look away and I'm starting to unironically enjoy it.
2:06.2	Yes, I so I had set a so last week on waypoints, Natalie and Danielle helped me model through the
2:14.9	eight teams because the lack of a Chicago team to settle on a boys at an Orlando, the Orlando
2:21.9	Apollo's as the team I wanted to root for as we make our way towards the whatever they call
2:28.3	the Super Bowl. So if they happen to the end of April, we're two teams face off. That's awesome.
2:33.5	Tub. That's the Super Bowl for the AAF, which I've decided stands for always adventurous football.
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