The Morning Show Podcast, a daily dose of audio to make your day a little better. Welcome to the Friday edition of the Morning Show podcast. My name is Anthony. I'm Carla Marie. And if you don't know what this podcast is, or maybe this is your first time joining us, welcome. What we try to do is give you a better morning experience under 30 minutes. That's kind of our promise. We're going to give you news.

We're going to play a game.

We're going to give you news.

We're going to play a game.

We're going to give you some headlines that will actually make you have a little hope for humanity.

And I'll also have what's trending, which is where I tell you something cool you didn't know about that you're going to want to buy. And I think we have to point out because this was brought to our attention yesterday on Thursday that on Spotify, we have risen to number 25 in the daily news category

on Spotify podcast.

Like out of all of the podcasts they do in this category, we've made it to the top 25.

Which if someone would have told me a year ago that we would have been here, I would not have

believed them.

Yeah.

And I'm thinking of this in, like, college sports terms.

So I think we're ranked now.

Because once you get to the top 25 in, like, college football or basketball, you're a ranked team. Do we, like, go to the playoffs or something? We could, I think, one day. On Apple, because I know there's a lot of people that listen on Apple Podcasts, we actually made it to number 44 in the same category. So in all seriousness, to everyone who has listened,

followed on any of the

platforms, and specifically on Spotify and Apple left us a rating or a review, thank you so much.

It literally means the world to us. I was like floored yesterday seeing that info.

Yeah, you can hit the stars button on both platforms, like just an actual like rate, boom, and move on. But an Apple, you can actually leave a review, which is really cool. So if you're in your feels today, you're feeling good on a Friday, go leave a nice little review there. And we've got a great show for you today on the morning show podcast. We are going to give you some big headlines. Obviously, there's a lot going on in the world. We are going to leave you with some hope for humanity. We have our friends Scotty from

Pittsburgh and Fred from Ohio playing a game with us this morning. And Carlin Marie's got what's

trending. The Core 4. The four headlines you need to know. You've definitely heard it before.

Your life flashes before your eyes when you

die. But for the first time we've learned, it's likely true. Neuroscientists recorded the brain

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