Weekly Wrap: Ford-Kavanaugh Fall-Out, Midterms, Meghan Markle

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🗓️ 28 September 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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It's Friday: Sam is getting through the week with Juana Summers (@jmsummers), national political reporter for The AP, and Ben Terris (@bterris), feature reporter for The Washington Post. They're talking reaction to the Ford-Kavanaugh hearing, President Trump's lengthy news conference, and the SEC suing Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Plus, Sam talks to journalist and author Annie Lowrey about universal basic income and how it could work in the U.S. Don't forget: buy tickets to our next Los Angeles live show at kpcc.org/inperson

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Daddy.
0:02.5	This week on the show, National Political Reporter for the Associated Press,
0:07.2	Wannan Fomers, and Washington Post-Polucal Reporter Ben Ferris.
0:13.1	Alright, let's start the show!
0:16.8	Hey y'all, I'm Sam Sanders, it's been a minute.
0:19.8	I always say, oh, we made it through the week, but this week,
0:23.4	I'm so proud that we made it to the weekend. Hello, guests, how are y'all?
0:26.9	Hey Sam. How's it going? We made it. That's all I can say.
0:29.1	We made it through the week. Wannan Summers, Political Reporter for the AP,
0:33.1	Ben Terris, Features Reporter, Covering Politics for the Washington Post.
0:37.1	How much has this week aged you both?
0:40.5	I don't know if I can answer that with a straight face to be completely honest.
0:43.4	Okay, yeah, I feel old, I feel old. I just feel like slightly broken, like I got to put the
0:49.3	pieces back together. Anyway, we'll have some fun this hour and do just that.
0:53.8	I got to start out by telling you folks about this song.
0:56.4	Usually I pick a song based on some music news or whatever I'm into,
1:00.4	but this week, this song was actually selected by Ancestry.com.
1:04.3	It's called Secret in the Dark by a Greek pop singer named Monika. I like it.
1:14.7	I like it because it's funky, but the story behind this song and how it came to this show
1:19.2	was really, really strange. Have you heard Ancestry.com has partnered with Spotify?
1:25.2	No. You didn't know about this?
1:26.8	I did, and I guess I dropped off the radar for that one.
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