Hey y'all, this is Sam Zartbadi. This week on the show, reporter and editor for

Quartz, David Yanowski and ProPublica Politics Reporter, Jessica Hooslin.

All right, let's start the show.

Hey y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders. It's been a minute. Happy weekends to our listeners

and my two guests. I'm here with Jessica Hoosman, Politics Reporter at ProPublica

and David Yanowski, editor at Quartz. Thank you both for being here.

Hey Sam. Thank you. How are y'all? I'm great. Feeling good. We are joined in studio by,

I think my favorite song of the moment is called, I Don't Care. It's by Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber.

I can't stop listening to it. The little boom chick chick. I love that. I love that.

So anyways, it's currently the number two song in the country. It's very popular.

And Ed Sheeran is making the rounds doing press because this is going to be the first song

from his upcoming album of collaborations. So him collaborating with lots of other singers and

pop stars, etc. But in one interview this week, Ed Sheeran said that he had an idea about doing a

collaboration with Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber to remake the classic song, Lading Marmalade.

I do not take that away from the ladies. Would they keep the lyrics the same? Well, I cannot imagine

Justin Bieber singing those words in French. I'm sorry. Sam, how do you feel about the Christina Aguilera

Maya version? I think it's a bit fussy and overdone. Like, Christina Aguilera in general.

But that's fine. This is the original. This is the classic. I will say that the Christina Aguilera

radio was like my absolute GM. And then my mother realized what the lyrics actually said in

French and she was like, stop listening to this immediately.

All right, I still love Ed Sheeran because in general, he always makes songs that I feel like I could

dance to at a wedding reception wildly with someone's grandma. Anyway, all right, we're going to

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