Weekly Wrap: 737 MAXs Grounded, #FacebookDown, Photoshopped College 'Athletes'

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🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

After a second fatal crash involving the Boeing 737 MAX airplane, countries around the world grounded the jet this week. Facebook and its suite of apps went offline for some time this week, leaving some social media users feeling disconnected. Plus, what one Ivy League-school graduate of color has to say about the college admissions scandal unveiled by the FBI. Julia Furlan is filling in for Sam this week, and she's joined by SELF editor Sally Tamarkin and WNYC reporter Arun Venugopal.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody. We are Julius Parents, Jeannie and Antonio calling from Resil. This week on the show
0:08.0	Sally Tomarkin features director at self. And WNYC reporter Arun Naveenekapal who covers race
0:16.3	and immigration. Let's start the show.
0:19.0	From NAR, I'm Julia Phelan in for Sam Sanders while he's out living his best life on vacation.
0:30.0	It's been a minute. You did it everybody. You made it to the weekend. As you heard my incredible
0:36.5	parents tell you, our guests today are two of my OGs. Sally Tomarkin features director for self
0:42.9	and Arun Naveenekapal who covers race and immigration for WNYC. Hi guys.
0:47.6	Hey Julia. The song that we're hearing right now is Gloria Stifan. Let's hear a little bit.
1:04.3	It's a beautiful song but we're hearing it for a sad reason because it's the theme song for a
1:08.6	Netflix show called One Day at a Time which was one of the few shows that like really uplifted
1:14.3	an entirely Latinx cast and this week Netflix made the decision to not renew the show for a fourth
1:22.1	season which I'm really pumped about. Yes. Booh. Regular people fans and also fancy people fans like
1:29.1	Gloria Stifan and Lin Manuel Miranda have been tweeting for days with the hashtag RenewOdat in an
1:34.8	attempt to try and get the show back on air. Have you guys watched it? I've seen a bit of it.
1:40.0	I'm sorry to say I haven't been. I had friends who for weeks and weeks before the cancellation
1:44.2	rumors were just like oh my god this is the best you have to watch this and so I really feel sad
1:48.6	about this thing I've never watched. Yeah it's so good. I feel like you know it's on Netflix so
1:53.2	you might as well catch up on the three seasons that are there. It was such a beautiful show.
1:59.3	People are like really criticizing Netflix especially because friends they paid you know
2:04.7	a hundred million dollars to keep friends on Netflix so um you know choices choices being
2:10.3	it's gonna get another boom from me. Okay to start the show as we always do each of us here will
2:24.2	describe some news from the week in just three words. Arun you are first. What have you got for us
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