Who wants to work in Congress anymore?

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🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This month, at least 12 members of Congress have announced they won’t seek reelection at the end of their terms. We’ll get into the record number of retirements and why the job might not be worth the trouble. Then, we’ll discuss how OpenAI’s leadership turmoil might be a turning point for the artificial intelligence industry. Plus, a St. Louis football team’s failed attempt to become a Thanksgiving game day staple.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Larry Summers Is OpenAI’s Surprise Pick to Mend Fences” from The Wall Street Journal

- “The Old-School Artillery Shell Is Becoming High Tech” from The Wall Street Journal

- “Frustrated lawmakers run for the exits: ‘DC is broken'” from The Hill

- “2 more House lawmakers announce exits, marking retirement record” from Politico

- “Before Dallas ruled Thanksgiving, the NFL tried St. Louis” from The Washington Post

- “Identifying fake news will now be a school requirement in California” from KTLA

If you’ve got a question, comment or submission for a state drink, send them our way. We’re at 508-UB-SMART or email makemesmart@marketplace.org.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I am rolling now we can get to it.
0:03.0	Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:10.0	Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:11.0	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense.
0:15.2	I'm Kyle Roosevelt.
0:15.9	Thanks for joining us on this Wednesday, November 22,
0:20.2	Thanksgiving Eve this year.
0:22.1	Yes, which is why I am joining from inside of my mother's car
0:26.0	so that I could escape the wonderful children
0:29.0	making lots of noise in my mother's house.
0:32.0	How many kids? of noise in my mother's house. So...
0:33.0	How many kids?
0:34.0	That would be four of them, ranging in age from 7 to 13.
0:40.0	Yes, it's lovely.
0:42.0	It's great. It's great. But before we get to those wonderful festivities
0:46.2	and let everybody go for the long holiday weekend, let us do some news and some smiles,
0:51.2	Kai, why don't you go first?
0:53.4	All right, so I've got two.
0:54.6	Both are just kind of like, wow, this is kind of wild.
0:57.9	The first one is a riff on the Sam Altman Open AI news that's been you know brewing around all week is
1:06.4	i don't want to talk about all the man i don't want to talk about open a i don't want to talk
1:09.5	about uh... the employees who banded together and said we're not doing this.
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