Weekly Roundup: Swift Speaks, Congress Stalls
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Plus, Congress returns with a government shutdown on the horizon, and a TikTok sound becomes an earworm.
This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, political reporter Elena Moore, congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales, and senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | From how we grow crops? |
| 0:02.0 | I think I'm 8th generation to farm. |
| 0:05.0 | To what we put on our plates. |
| 0:07.0 | Plant-based eating isn't, you know, scary. |
| 0:09.0 | It doesn't make you less of a man. |
| 0:10.0 | Climate change is influencing the future of food. |
| 0:13.7 | That's what we're exploring this year during NPR's Climate Solutions Week. |
| 0:17.6 | Learn more at NPR.org |
| 0:20.0 | slash Climate Week. |
| 0:27.0 | Hi, this is Michelle and I just moved to Cleveland, Ohio. After 10 years as a software engineer, I'm gearing up for my first day of nursing school. This podcast was reported at 12.37 PM Eastern time on Friday, September 13th. |
| 0:41.0 | Oh, guys! No, it's Friday the 13th. The Friday the 13th. |
| 0:46.0 | No one cares. |
| 0:47.0 | You are such a grump. |
| 0:49.0 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, |
| 0:51.0 | but it's never too late to try something new. |
| 0:54.0 | Okay here's the show. |
| 0:56.0 | Domenico why can't you be more like her? |
| 1:01.0 | I am I just don't think that we need to be like weirded out about Friday the 13th who cares it's not a big |
| 1:06.2 | deal 80% of people don't think it's a big deal there was just a thing I heard |
| 1:09.2 | about that on NPR throwing a hole at us hey there it's the NPR politics podcast I'm |
| 1:15.1 | a smachala that I cover the White House. I'm Elena Moore I'm positive about |
| 1:18.2 | today and I cover the campaign and I'm Domenica Monnetaro senior political |
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