What summer heat waves mean for prisons
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Triple-digit heat waves are spreading across the Southwest, and many incarcerated people have to endure the extreme weather without air conditioning. We’ll get into why state legislatures have been slow to address the problem and why it’ll only get worse as temperatures rise. Plus, we’ll get into New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s last minute switch-up on congestion pricing. And, the story of a TikTok influencer treating day laborers to days off at Disneyland is making us smile.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Hochul Halts Congestion Pricing in a Stunning 11th-Hour Shift” from The New York Times
- “A year of record global heat has pushed Earth closer to dangerous threshold” from The Washington Post
- “‘Cooking someone to death’: Southern states resist calls to add air conditioning to prisons” from Politico
- “This 27-year-old keeps taking day laborers to Disneyland. One thing always catches his attention” from CNN
- “Boeing Starliner launches 2 NASA astronauts into space in first piloted test flight” from Fox Business
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:02.0 | Hey, I'm ready. Hey everyone, I'm Todd Rizdall. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. |
| 0:13.0 | Drag that out for a bit. |
| 0:16.0 | And I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:17.0 | Thank you for joining us on this Wednesday, June the 5th. |
| 0:20.0 | Today we are going to do some news and some smiles. |
| 0:23.7 | So, Kai, what caught your attention today? |
| 0:25.8 | I have been for many years and continue to be simply gobsmacked at the amount of |
| 0:31.9 | control that the state of New York has over |
| 0:34.7 | transportation in the city of New York in virtually every degree, right? They |
| 0:39.4 | control the subway system, the MPA, which is subways and buses and bridges and all kinds of stuff and now comes news out of Albany that literally weeks before a change that people have been working on for decades that would implement |
| 0:56.0 | congestion pricing in parts of Manhattan, arguably one of the worst traffic zones on the planet, |
| 1:02.0 | except maybe Cairo Cairo Egypt where I |
| 1:03.7 | honestly thought I was going to die in the back of a taxi cab but that's a whole different |
| 1:06.9 | thing right I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I'm a major alive |
| 1:11.6 | honestly anyway so Governor Kathy Hockel I know I'm a major alive, honestly. |
| 1:13.0 | Anyway, so Governor Kathy Hockel has come out |
| 1:16.2 | after previously being in favor of congestion pricing. |
| 1:19.5 | She now says, oh no, no, now's not the time time and literally people have been working on this |
| 1:24.4 | for decades and it's supposed to go into effect I think the end of this month and now |
| 1:28.6 | it's like I don't want to do this anymore. It's amazing. I encourage you to read the piece of the New York |
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