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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Can Starlink ever fulfill its promise of connecting the world, especially places left behind by traditional internet? Or will it be just another toy for the rich? 


Guest: Meaghan Tobin, reporter at Rest of World


Host: Lizzie O'Leary


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0:00.0

Oh, is that a pumpkin spice latte?

0:03.2

No, it's the pumpkin spice latte.

0:05.9

Starbucks?

0:06.9

Obviously.

0:07.9

You know, I once got so obsessed with pumpkin spice, I only wore orange for a month.

0:11.3

Ugh, that's nothing.

0:12.6

I once got so obsessed I got a pumpkin shaman into my hair.

0:15.0

Oh yeah?

0:16.0

Well last year I cured outside Starbucks for a week.

0:18.3

And my tent was a shape of a pumpkin?

0:19.8

Well, I'm changing my name to pumpkin spicy.

0:24.9

The Starbucks original is back.

0:26.7

Go all out pumpkin spice, subject to availability while stocks last.

0:44.3

This winter, a massive underwater volcano erupted near the Pacific island nation of Tonga.

0:51.2

In this cell phone video from Fiji, people are staring at clouds and ash and then a shockwave

0:57.6

hits.

1:00.5

The volcano was massive, it killed at least four people and triggered a tsunami.

1:05.4

And on January 15th, when the eruption reached its climax, it also disconnected Tonga from

1:11.0

the outside world.

1:12.5

The volcano erupted and almost immediately severed the only internet cable that connects

1:17.5

the archipelago of Tonga to the global internet.

1:21.6

That's Megan Tobin, a reporter for the website Rest of World.

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