Drone Shot Down, NBA Draft & Voice-Controlled Monopoly (+ Talking Presidential Primaries) - Thursday, June 20th, 2019
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Thursday, June 20th, 2019!
Today, we're talking about Iran shooting down a U.S. drone, and why YouTube is thinking about some major changes.
Plus: a new voice-activated Monopoly board game, and the re-release of one of the most popular movies of all time.
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Then, hang out after the news for Thing to Know Thursday's bonus interview. We're talking about the presidential primary debate coming up in exactly one week. Do debates and polls matter? What are the key issues? Jonathan Bernstein, a political scientist and columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, is on the show to answer those questions.
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy helps break it all down for you.
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Sources:
Drone Shot Down: AP
China, North Korea & U.S.: BBC, Reuters, NYT
Clean-Air Rules Overturned: AP, NPR, Washington Post
Interest Rates Steady: Reuters, WSJ, USA Today
Youtube Investigated: Washington Post, The Verge, WSJ
NBA Draft: ESPN, Sports Illustrated, CBS Sports
World Cup: NBC Sports
Heart Attack Detection: Bloomberg, Engadget
Avengers: Endgame Re-release: People, Gizmodo
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Thursday, June 20th. |
| 0:03.0 | What to know today about a meeting between China and North Korea |
| 0:06.0 | and why YouTube could be making some major changes. |
| 0:09.0 | Plus a new talking monopoly game, |
| 0:11.0 | and the re-release of one of the most popular movies of all time |
| 0:14.6 | then hang out after the news for thing to note Thursday's bonus interview all about the |
| 0:18.8 | presidential primary debates and by the way if you want more on that you can always check out our friends over the primary ride home podcast as a compliment to this show. |
| 0:27.0 | They focus only on news from the campaign trail. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome, |
| 0:32.6 | to the newsworthy. |
| 0:33.8 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:36.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 0:39.8 | Thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:41.4 | You ready? |
| 0:42.4 | Let's do this. |
| 0:44.0 | All right, we start today with a couple of stories |
| 0:48.6 | that are still developing as of early this morning. |
| 0:51.1 | First, the AP reports, Iran is at least claiming it shot down a US |
| 0:54.8 | drone saying that drone was in Iranian airspace. At this point the US military |
| 1:00.1 | is not commenting other than one spokesman saying a drone was never in that area. |
| 1:05.0 | Remember, this is happening as tensions are already rising between the two countries. |
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