"The Hash" team discusses today's top stories, including Elon Musk reversing his decision to join Twitter's board of directors, Coinbase suspending 'buy' orders in India, and the Luna Foundation Guard's bitcoin buying spree.
This episode has been edited by Michele Musso. Our Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz with additional production support from Eleanor Pahl. Our theme song is “Neon Beach.“
Twitter’s board was going to look a little different. Not so much anymore. (0:22) Tim Beyers joins Deidre Woollard to discuss: - The potential reasons why Elon Musk is jumping off Twitter’s board.
- Warner Bros. Discovery’s first day as a publicly traded company.
- A potential seller’s strike at Etsy.
(20:05) Matt Argersinger joins Deidre in a discussion on how rising interest rates could impact Zillow and Redfin, and what those companies are doing differently from each other.
According to the Biden administration, more than 100 countries worldwide are working on central bank digital currencies. On today’s episode, NLW does a survey of the places that are farthest along and looks at the great power competition between China, Europe and the U.S. around CBDCs.
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with today’s editing by Eleanor Pahl and Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “I Don't Know How To Explain It” by Aaron Sprinkle. Image credit: Francesco Carta fotografo/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
On this episode, Nathan Pinkoski joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss Eric Zemmour and his recent First Things article, "The Most Controversial Man in France."
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A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.
Music
Dance PM from Horishi Yoshimura
Amor - C.B. Rework by Clark
Here’s What You’re Missin by Bing and Ruth
Meredith Monk’s Ellis Island as played by Bruce Brubaker
Alto Paraiso by Aukai
Opening from Nathaniel Bartlett
Rivers That you Cannot See by North Americans
First of the Tide by Erland Cooper featuring Benge
Notes
The episode old episode I mention in the credits as a companion to this one is here.
Most of the biographical details in this were found in the official biography written for the National Academy of Sciences by his Uranium-hunting colleague, George Tilton, and a terrific, entertaining oral history interview.
Also, if you’ve left episode in the mode where you’d just like to know some more, I came across this old Mental Floss article by Lucas Reilly that I thought did a particularly good job of weaving a lot of the back story (some of which I’d covered before in the Midgely episode linked above) into Patterson’s story. Just wanted to shine a light on it.
Today’s podcast takes up the latest COVID numbers and how they reveal the end of the pandemic—so much so that even Anthony Fauci is effectively saying so. Then we talk about astounding Ron De Santis fundraising, French politics, and a disgusting assault on student journalists by the editor of the Atlantic. Give a listen. Source
The US and multiple eyewitnesses state Russia is actively committing war crimes. The pandemic led to a baby bust, rather than a baby boom. The rise of male birth control seems on the horizon. All this and more in this week's Strange News.
The U.S. wants India to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but so far the world's biggest democracy has not. India has deep ties with Moscow. The war has displaced millions of Ukrainians, and neighboring Romania is adapting to an influx of refugees.
Ukraine's battle shifts to the east amid pleas for more weapons. Targeting Ghost guns. A new Master's champ. CBS News Correspondent Deborah Rodriguez has today's World News Roundup.
