Renaissance: FTX Fallout, World Cup Outrage, Setting Boundaries at Holidays

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🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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First: We’re covering the week’s biggest headlines: a roundup of midterm outcomes and political news, the latest on the protests in Iran, and the Artemis I rocket launch. Then: FTX – one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges – had a pretty abrupt fall from grace. We're talking to an expert about what FTX's demise means for the rest of the crypto world and what potential investors can learn from it. Next: The World Cup kicks off this weekend, but there’s been a lot of off-the-field drama. We’ll break down why the Cup has become a geopolitical mess…in 60 seconds. Plus: In partnership with our friends at Slack, we're taking listeners behind the scenes of our digital HQ, and talking about how certain Slack channels help us do our jobs better. Our final channel deep-dive: #parent-life. Finally: Ever been asked “why are you still single?” or “why aren’t you drinking?” at the Thanksgiving table? For many of us, sitting at the Thanksgiving table can make us wanna pull our hair out thanks to nosy family members and political heat. But this year, setting boundaries is in. So we called a therapist who helps us navigate who to set boundaries with, how to actually set them, and how sticking to them can help keep the peace and our sanity. On this episode, you’ll hear from: Anita Ramaswamy, senior cryptocurrency reporter, TechCrunch Jana Pollack, senior manager of creative strategy, theSkimm Nedra Tawwab, therapist and author Want more Skimm? Sign up for our free daily newsletter Email us your questions about what’s going on in the news right now Subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts Skimm'd by Alex Carr, Will Livingston, and Blake Lew-Merwin with help from Alaisha Key. Engineered by Andrew Callaway and Elie McAfee-Hahn. TheSkimm’s head of audio is Graelyn Brashear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Slack.
0:03.2	Welcome to Schem this.
0:09.5	Results from the midterm elections are in,
0:12.0	and the balance of power in Congress
0:14.5	is basically an even split.
0:17.4	We're breaking down the final votes,
0:19.4	along with the week's other major headlines.
0:22.6	From growing protests in Iran
0:24.8	to a highly anticipated rocket launch here in the US.
0:29.0	Also on the show, we're getting into the collapse of FTX,
0:33.1	one of the world's leading crypto exchanges.
0:36.5	This story is a made for TV drama,
0:39.3	with major real world implications.
0:42.4	They were literally trading with billions of dollars
0:44.8	worth of customer funds from FTX.
0:46.3	That's first of all illegal and second of all just really wrong.
0:50.0	And finally, have you ever been asked,
0:52.5	why are you still single?
0:54.3	Or when are you having kids at a family gathering?
0:58.6	Us too.
0:59.7	So we're talking to an expert about how to set boundaries
1:02.9	that'll finally make you feel like you're not stuck
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