Make Me Smart
Hosted by Kimberly and Kimberly Adams · Marketplace
4.6from 6,277 ratings
- 739
- Episodes
- 524
- Transcribed
- 6,277
- Ratings
- 2023
- First episode
- 15M
- YouTube views
About Make Me Smart
Each weekday, Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams makes today make sense along with her Marketplace colleagues, breaking down happenings in tech, the economy, and culture. Because none of us is as smart as all of us.
- Publisher
- Marketplace
- Category
- business · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Jan 2023
- Latest episode
- 21 Jun 2026
Latest episodes
524 of 739 episodes have a transcript.
21 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
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29 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
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From "Marketplace Morning Report": The Rural Healthcare Crisis
Published 21 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And try to arrange to have a visit at that place and establish a care relationship with that place that you might end up going if you got into trouble. so that there is some records and there's some physician or a nurse practitioner or physician's assistant who knows you. Oh, this makes a lot of sense. […]
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- Dan Runcie
- Julie Belcove
- Chris Neubert
- Ben Fritz
- Daniel Scott
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 14,534,873
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 5,455 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 822 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 87 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 94
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Who hosts Make Me Smart?
Kimberly and Kimberly Adams host the show. Published by Marketplace.
Does Make Me Smart take guests?
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