Janelle Monáe | GOP Spins Conspiracy Theories About Arrest of FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at disgraced cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried being arrested and charged with eight criminal counts after the collapse of FTX, while Republicans claim the arrest is a ploy to keep him from testifying to Congress.
Then, Janelle Monáe talks about being nominated for a Critics Choice Award for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the writer and director of Glass Onion, Rian Johnson, hosting murder mystery parties while filming and her idea for a reboot of The Grinch.
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| 0:00.0 | According to a new survey, 32% of Gen Z are likely to call in sick at work when they're |
| 0:07.6 | feeling unwell, which is shocking. |
| 0:10.1 | A Gen Z person making a phone call. |
| 0:19.2 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:23.5 | with Seth Myers. |
| 0:24.5 | On today's show, Seth Chats will act during musician Janelle Monet. |
| 0:28.4 | First, a closer look. |
| 0:58.4 | Even if you don't know or don't care that much about crypto, you've probably heard |
| 1:14.8 | of this guy, Sam Bankman Fried, who was until recently one of crypto's biggest rising |
| 1:19.1 | stars. |
| 1:20.1 | Maybe you heard about his crypto exchange, FDX, or his trading firm Alameda Research, or |
| 1:23.9 | maybe you just call wind to the fact that one of the biggest rising stars in tech and |
| 1:27.2 | finance was a guy who looks the way Cheeto dust smells. |
| 1:31.3 | I mean, look at that dude. |
| 1:34.6 | Looks like an albacricky dog walker at 6 a.m. |
| 1:38.0 | Come on, Nacho, buddy. |
| 1:40.1 | Do your business, bro. |
| 1:43.0 | He looks like he should be playing Seth Rogan's burnout son in a Judd Apertor movie. |
| 1:47.1 | Somehow this guy tricked the world's most influential people into believing he was a crypto |
| 1:50.8 | visionary. |
| 1:51.8 | Most international criminals have ice-water in their veins, not bomb water. |
| 1:55.2 | And yet he even managed to convince the likes of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair to appear |
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