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Sweater Weather: Arctic Blast, January 6th Report, Listening Back on 2022

Skimm This

theSkimm

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4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

First: We’ve got the context on the week’s biggest headlines – from how to travel safely during this weekend’s bomb cyclone to President Zelensky’s visit on Capitol Hill. Plus, an update on Elon Musk’s future at Twitter. Then: The January 6th committee dropped its final report, wrapping up a year of hearings and investigations. We’re saving you the reading and skimming the three things you need to know about what they found. Finally: 2022 was a busy year. From the Russian invasion of Ukraine and an FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, to Serena Williams retiring and a bombshell royal exposé. We’re listening back to all of it by ending our final show of 2022 with the year in sound.  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. We had additional help from Alaisha Key. Engineered by Elie McAfee-Hahn and Andrew Callaway. TheSkimm’s head of audio is Graelyn Brashear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Schemeless.

0:03.7

The weather outside really is frightful, and while millions of Americans will get a

0:08.8

white Christmas, thousands will also have their flights canceled.

0:14.4

We're skimming how to survive the holiday travel madness.

0:18.9

Also on the show, we've got the week's other major headlines, from a surprise visit in

0:23.9

Washington, D.C., to chaos and confusion at the U.S.-Mexico border.

0:29.8

Later, the January 6th Committee dropped its final mixtape, I mean, report.

0:35.4

We read it so you don't have to.

0:38.3

And finally, from the Nagroney Spagliato to the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, 2022 was a weird

0:46.1

one.

0:47.1

We're bringing you highlights from the year, in sound.

0:51.0

We're here to make you smarter and the news less overwhelming.

0:54.4

I'm Alex Carr, and for the last time in 2022, let's skin this.

1:06.6

Let's start with some headlines from the week's news, and give you some context on why they

1:11.7

matter.

1:12.7

First up...

1:13.7

Tonight, a crippling collision course taking aim at holiday travel.

1:20.2

The U.S. is bracing for a bomb cyclone that's bringing snow, rain, and severe windshale

1:26.5

to more than 40 states this weekend.

1:29.4

Talk about North Pole vibes.

1:32.2

Snow already blanketed the Pacific Northwest earlier this week, and now over 50 million

1:37.8

people across the northern plains to the Great Lakes are under winter weather advisories

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