Weekly Wrap: Transgender Rights, Netflix Rom-Coms, Halloween Candy

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🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It's Friday. Sam's loneliness is killing him, so he's joined by podcast maker and journalist Julia Furlan and Stacey Vanek Smith, host of NPR's The Indicator podcast. The Trump administration may seek to limit the federal government's definition of "sex" — potentially allowing for the rollback of protections for transgender people under federal civil rights law. Plus, Sam looks at the success of Netflix's "Summer of Love" and wonders if it could revive the romantic-comedy genre in film.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Betty.
0:02.7	This week on the show,
0:04.4	podcast producer and host, Julia Farlon,
0:08.1	and co-host of the Indicator from NPR's Planet Money Ting,
0:12.8	Stacy, Danik Smith.
0:14.6	All right, let's start the show.
0:16.4	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:19.7	It is so nice to hear your aunt say my name.
0:22.7	She sent me a text this morning out of the blue,
0:26.1	and she was like,
0:27.0	I heard that Megan Kelly is leaving her job.
0:29.5	She makes over $60 million a year.
0:31.9	You should try to work in TV
0:33.1	and get even just a little bit of that.
0:34.4	That would be great for you.
0:35.4	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:36.4	She's not wrong.
0:37.9	She's not wrong.
0:38.9	She was like, my cut would only be $5 million.
0:40.6	I mean, if you could just negotiate like $160.
0:43.4	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:43.9	That's all I need.
	...

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