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🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Today during Economics on Tap, we’re low-key celebrating this weekend’s Kentucky Derby and venting a little about the journalists and political figures who withheld critical information and news, only to finally reveal it in their books. For profit. Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper revealed in his soon-to-be-released memoir that, two years ago, then-President Donald Trump considered launching missiles into Mexico. In surprisingly less scary news, “Little Shop of Horrors” is celebrating its Broadway revival with festivities. Before we head into Kentucky Derby weekend, we go Half Full/Half Empty on coin collecting, children at work and more.

“Trump Proposed Launching Missiles Into Mexico to ‘Destroy the Drug Labs,’ Esper Says” from The New York Times
“Little Shop of Horrors Will Celebrate 40th Anniversary With Block Party, Concert, More” from Playbill
“Little Shop of Horrors: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert” from NPR
“How Buy Now, Pay Later is changing how consumers think about travel” from Fast Company
“What the Fed’s rate hike means for one community bank” from Marketplace
“Coin collecting is big business on social media” from Marketplace
“It’s time for a non-white host of ‘The Late Late Show’. Here’s our critic’s shortlist” from NPR
“After years of working from home, how has Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day evolved?” from Marketplace

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0:00.0	True whenever you're ready. I'm ready Kimberly's ready. Jasper's ready
0:03.9	Jasper's not ready because Jasper's not here I'm in the office
0:08.4	Oh right
0:10.4	Oops, hi, I'm Kimberly Adams and welcome back to make me smart where we make today make sense even when we don't have Jasper around
0:19.0	Because I'm in the office
0:21.0	When one of us is in the office. I'm Kyle Rosdall. Thank you for joining us on this Friday afternoon for economics on tap
0:26.4	Whether you're on the YouTube live stream listening to the podcast. I guess we're doing discord too. Although I don't have that up
0:31.8	We got everything going on is what we do
0:36.0	Yeah, and we have some news. We're gonna play some half full half empty coming up
0:41.6	But first Kai what are you drinking
0:44.7	We'll do drinks. So I'm doing a standard beer. It's a firestone brewing mind haze IPA
0:50.8	But more to the point also, why do I look so big on that youtube?
0:54.8	Yeah, sorry about that. This is why I just want you to video Kai. That's why you don't look at the video
0:59.3	That's why you don't look at the video. That's exactly right. That's exactly right
1:02.4	Uh, so that's what I'm drinking plus a special treat here in about 30 seconds after you tell me what you're drinking
1:09.1	I of course am drinking a mint julep as I said I would be yesterday
1:13.6	I made my mint simple syrup this morning for this particular occasion and so I've got my mint simple syrup
1:19.7	I've got my bourbon and more bourbon and mint
1:23.2	and
1:25.2	For those who are watching
1:27.5	Yeah, go ahead. No, you described those who are watching on the youtube live stream
1:33.7	I am wearing my Derby hat because the Kentucky Derby is this weekend
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