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FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Friday November 15th, 2024

FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Kevin Manno

News, Society & Culture, Arts, Daily News

5.02.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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10 minutes & you're caught up. Easy & convenient. Stop doomscrolling. @FIRSTTHINGPOD on Instagram || Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let's go. It's Friday. November 15th, 2024. Happy Friday. It's first thing with Kevin Mano.

0:07.8

Real quick look at all the top headlines as you start your day. A super convenient way to consume the news and the show starts right now.

0:16.9

And we always start with the top story. This is a big one at the moment.

0:21.1

This headline is everywhere.

0:22.0

The Onion, that satirical news publication, just won ownership of Alex Jones Info Wars.

0:29.3

They won the bidding at a bankruptcy auction, and The Onion was backed by families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims.

0:35.3

Alex Jones owes those families more than a billion dollars in defamation payouts.

0:39.5

He repeatedly called that tragedy a hoax.

0:42.1

And now his company belongs to The Onion.

0:44.8

They own the website, the social media accounts, the InfoWore Studio, trademarks, the video

0:50.1

archive, all of it.

0:51.7

Jones has already commented, and he's not happy about this. He wants to try to

0:54.7

fight it. It'll be interesting to see where all of this goes, but the Onion owns Info Wars. That is an

1:00.7

unexpected headline.

1:05.4

All right, okay. On to sports. First, this came out yesterday. The Tampa Bay Rays will play their 20-25 season at the

1:12.9

Yankee Spring Training Ballpark in Tampa. They normally play their home games at Tropicana

1:17.9

Field, but it was hit by Hurricane Milton last month, and it's going to take a while to get

1:23.0

it all fixed up. They say it'll be ready for the start of the 2026 season, so until then,

1:27.4

they are

1:27.9

relocating. In Olympic news, three-time Olympic medalist Lindsay Vaughn just announced that she's

1:33.8

coming out of retirement. Six years since her last Olympic appearance, she's going to rejoin

1:38.6

the U.S. ski team for their 2024-2020 season. She's 40 years old. I love this. That's cool.

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