Willa Rubin
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53 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Willa Rubin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hi, Alexi. Hey, PJ. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm enjoying the very beginning of spring.
I'm so sorry to hear that.
Everyone should have at least one season they enjoy. It's true. I'm still in search. This is Alexey Horowitz-Gazy. He's a reporter whose work I very much enjoy. He's also one of the hosts at Planet Money. Does that show need an introduction? They're a long-running, very smart NPR show that explains, week by week, the world of things driven by markets.
So, just a couple weeks ago, we actually did a story with one of your NPR colleagues, Bobby Allen, that was about Doge, the government commission. Yes, the legend. The legend. Today, we're doing a story with you that actually, weirdly, a little bit is like almost lore or backstory to Doge. Like, it's in part about Doge the meme coin.
Yeah, it's funny. I mean, Planet Money, your show, which when we were beginning to pilot Search Engine, we talked a lot about Planet Money and how at its genesis, we were like in the mortgage crisis and everybody was looking for explanation. And Planet Money kind of like arose to make sense of something that needed sense making. I feel like...
We are now entering, once again, a moment in which the economy is both confusing and somewhat terrifying. And it's like, I'm very glad PlanetMoney is here.
I really had not understood how much meme coins had evolved since I was last seriously covering crypto. But that world has gotten much stranger and wilder, even compared to just 2022, for a very specific reason. This is a story about why that happened. I first heard it on Planet Money, but I liked it so much, I wanted to share it with you here. I'm going to let Alexi take it away.
So that was Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi with Nick Nevis. If you enjoyed the story, there's a second part. It's called The Parable of Peanut the Meme Coin. You can find it now on the Planet Money feed. We'll also just have a link in our show notes. Also, if you haven't just tried Planet Money as a podcast,
I really think if you enjoy our show, which tries to make sense of a confusing world, you'll probably enjoy theirs, which is on a similar mission with a similar bent towards curiosity and fun. That Planet Money episode you just heard was produced by Willa Rubin. It was edited by Jess Jang with help from Keith Romer. Fact-checked by Sierra Juarez and engineered by Neil Rausch.
Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer. And we will have a new episode of Search Engine hosted by me next week. We'll see you then.
Why are groceries still so expensive? Why has inflation decreased but food is still 25% more?
The J.W. Westcott II, that is the boat that is, I guess you might say, the iconic piece that's known worldwide. It's a great handling boat. It's a single screw, diesel driven, and made for the trade.
A lot of the first class letters, if they were going to guys aboard the boats, would certainly have some of them be scented with perfume and things of this nature.
Love letters right there.
Yeah, we don't see so much of that anymore, you know, with iPhones and Android and this and the other thing with email.
As the population grew, there needed to be a more streamlined system. And I'm basically surmising here because I've never thought about really looking into it.
I really hope you do.
Put the zip on every letter.
Your mail will get there better.
Hey, Shortwave. I come to you with a story. All right, let's hear it. So about two hours southeast of Berlin, there's a city called Cottbus. It's pretty small. About 100,000 people live there. For context, this is in eastern Germany, near the Polish border. And so historically, this part of Germany had a lot of lignite mining. This is a fossil fuel that is dark brown. It's soft.
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