And that’s a wrap on 2023

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🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

For our final episode of 2023, we’re throwing a holiday party with music, festive fascinator hats and drinks. We’ll also get to some big medical news: For the first time, the FDA approved gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease, which affects mostly Black people in the United States. And, the head of OPEC is meddling in climate talks at COP28. Plus, we’ll play a holiday-themed round of our favorite game, Half Full/Half Empty!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “OPEC Leader Tells Members to Block Any Climate Summit Deal to Curb Fossil Fuels” from The New York Times

- “FDA Approves Breakthrough Sickle Cell Disease Gene Therapies” from HuffPost

- “US FDA approves two gene therapies for sickle cell disease” from Reuters

- “After living with sickle cell disease for 39 years, I’m both excited and skeptical about the newly approved gene therapies” from Stat News

- “Buy now, pay later hit an all-time high on Cyber Monday” from Marketplace

- “A Brief History of the White Elephant Party” from The New York Times

- “Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Wore Squirrel Sweaters, Maybe” from Marie Claire

- “Amazon Is Packed with Festive Outdoor Christmas Decorations” from People

- “How to get through a holiday party at work without embarrassing yourself” from NPR

We’ll be back with new episodes on Jan. 8. Until then, 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	Watch it's not.
0:02.0	Oh, see, Charlie cares about the holiday.
0:07.0	You're the only one, Kai.
0:09.0	You're the only one.
0:10.0	Somebody has to be Scrooge.
0:12.0	Somebody has to be the Grinch and that's me. I'm Kyle Rizdell. Welcome back to
0:16.0	Make Me Smart. Making the name makes sense. Friday 8 December is where we are on
0:20.3	the calendar. And I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:23.0	Thank you for everyone.
0:25.0	Thank you everyone for joining us on our happy hour, our YouTube live stream,
0:28.0	which we like to call Economics On Tap.
0:30.0	It is our last episode of the year, and some of us are in the holiday spirit some of us
0:36.4	Jasper it's Jasper even has a bow I don't know if you can see it the mic's in the way it's not
0:44.7	that I'm not in the holiday spirit I just don't manifest the way you do that I mean you know what
0:50.9	that's fair that's fair everyone holiday holidays in their own way that's that's
0:55.3	that is right that's very fair Sarah slosher says she loves your tiara
1:01.5	thank you it's a fascinator.
1:03.0	Kai actually got that right before the show.
1:05.0	He figured it out.
1:07.0	He was pretty close.
1:08.0	Well, close.
1:09.0	I was almost right.
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