Tracking Santa’s Sleigh Ride This Weekend 12/22/23

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4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) returns to Squawk Pod for its annual tradition: tracking Santa Claus’s Christmas journey through the night sky. Deputy Commander of the Continental US NORAD Region Major-General S.T. Boyle explains how Rudolph helps light the way for Santa and for NORAD tracking his progress. Also spreading holiday cheer, chef, restaurateur, and author of “Eat, Drink, and Be Murray” cookbook, Andy Murray. Murray shares family recipes and stories from his Caddyshack-themed restaurants. Plus, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman explains the geopolitics at play in the Red Sea, and Joe Kernen, Becky Quick, and Andrew Ross Sorkin discuss the other business headlines before the holiday weekend: China’s limits on teen tech use, and the US Department of Transportation is scrutinizing frequent flier programs. Thomas Friedman - 12:28 Andy Murray - 20:02 Major-General S.T. Boyle - 27:42 In this episode: Thomas Friedman, @tomfriedman Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music please.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer, today on Squawk Pot.
0:09.0	How Israel's War in Gaza and the Hooty attacks in the Red Sea are part of a larger geopolitical
0:14.8	picture with New York Times Foreign Affairs columnist Tom Friedman.
0:18.1	I was very worried about Israel going into Gaza for two reasons.
0:22.0	One, it clearly had no end game.
0:24.9	And eat, drink, and be Murray with your family.
0:28.2	How Chef and Cookbook Author Andy Murray
0:30.4	laughs and eats for the holiday. Cooking is just another form of love.
0:34.0	Would you like to know where
0:38.0	Santa Claus is coming to town
0:41.0	and Norrat is watching the wintry skies for a certain sleigh.
0:44.6	It's that intensity of the infrared signal coming from Rudolph's nose that helps us initially
0:49.5	pick them up.
0:50.5	Plus the other business headlines before the holiday, including promising drugs for brain chemistry,
0:56.2	changes to your frequent flyer program, and China wants teens to spend less time with their tech.
1:02.3	Which side are you on?
1:03.4	Are you on the, I mean there's arguably the freedom side
1:06.4	which is what we're doing,
1:07.6	but I'm not sure that's the perfect answer either.
1:10.7	It's Friday, December 22nd, and a jam-packed squawk pod begins right now.
1:16.0	Stand Becky by in three, two, one, queue please.
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