99 Surveillance Balloons Go By
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
After the U.S. military downed a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean last week, three more “unidentified aerial objects'' have been shot down in North American airspace since Friday. While we don’t yet know what they were – or where they’re from – lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say they want answers from the Biden administration about its response.
And in headlines: the death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquake reached over 33,000 people, the EPA said a major railway could be liable for cleaning up the train derailment in Ohio, and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is expected to announce that she’s running for president.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, February 13th. I'm Treville Anderson. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Josie Defi Race. And this is What a Day. |
| 0:12.3 | Where we picked the exact wrong week to launch our official Wad weather balloon. |
| 0:17.2 | We are trying to replace the groundhog and let the groundhog retire. |
| 0:22.1 | Mm-hmm. And so we thought we'd try this out. |
| 0:24.5 | Yeah, it's going to be six more weeks of winter. |
| 0:31.2 | On Today's show, Turkish authorities have arrested building contractors as the death toll from last week's earthquake continues to mount. |
| 0:37.9 | Plus, a former Trump appointee is expected to run against her old boss for the Republican nomination. |
| 0:43.0 | But first, is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a quote-unquote unidentified aerial object. |
| 0:50.7 | And for the record, I'm not talking about the suspected Chinese spy balloon we mentioned on the show last week. |
| 0:56.8 | Over the weekend, there were reports of at least three other floating thing-a-majigis that have been shot down |
| 1:02.8 | out of North American airspace over the last week or so. |
| 1:05.9 | Yeah, I don't love this personally. So my favorite thing. |
| 1:10.8 | Can you tell us what is happening? |
| 1:13.3 | Yes, inquiring minds definitely want to know, but the details are kind of slim here. |
| 1:19.2 | And I should say that many headlines have been using the acronym UFO to describe these floating items. |
| 1:26.4 | UFO stands for unidentified flying object. |
| 1:30.4 | But when I think of UFO, I think of alleged life on Mars or something little green people that I've been told are UFOs. |
| 1:39.6 | And so for our discussion today, I'm going to use Think-a-majigig and Think-a-ma-Bobbin interchangeably here, okay? |
| 1:46.8 | Because that feels more appropriate, okay? |
| 1:49.3 | I could not agree more. |
| 1:50.8 | So on Friday, there was another object that was floating over Northern Alaska that President Biden ordered to be destroyed. |
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