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FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Monday, August 28th 2023

FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Kevin Manno

News, Society & Culture, Arts, Daily News

5.02.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

60th anniversary of MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech, racially motivated murders in Florida, hurricane headed to Florida, Bob Barker passed away, Bronny James update, Simone Biles makes history, California won the Little League World Series, Derek Hough is married, Gran Turismo is #1, Netflix wants you to keep DVDs, Oliver Anthony clarifies political stance, Super Blue Moon & more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hope you had a nice weekend. Welcome to a new week. It's Monday, August 28th, 2023, and it starts right now.

0:07.8

All right. Let's do it. It's first thing with Kevin Mano, a quick look at all the headlines across the

0:12.9

board. You feel like you know what's going on in this world as you start your day. Before we get

0:17.2

there, some celebrity birthdays, this is a really popular date for country singers to be born.

0:22.1

Cassidy Pope, Leanne Rhymes, Jake Owens, and Shania Twain. All of them celebrating birthdays

0:28.0

today. How about that? Also Jack Black, Jennifer Coolidge, and Daniel Stern. Happy birthday,

0:32.8

everybody. Solid list. Also on the state and history today is the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin

0:39.5

Luther King Jr's historic I have a dream speech. There were a quarter of a million people out there

0:45.4

watching him at the Lincoln Memorial 60 years ago today. My four little children, one day living

0:53.7

in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their

0:59.1

character. I have a dream. Okay. All right. We'll start with the top story and with that anniversary

1:10.3

in mind, it makes this one a whole lot more impactful. One of the top headlines from the weekend

1:15.1

was a reportedly racially motivated shooting at a dollar general store in Jacksonville, Florida.

1:20.8

Three Black people lost their lives. A white man and a mask and a bulletproof vest had a weapon

1:25.2

marked with a swastika and he took the lives of two men and one woman Saturday afternoon. The

1:30.0

victims were 52, 29 and 19 years old. The shooter, who is 21 years old, also took his own life.

1:37.4

The attorney general said that the Justice Department is, quote, investigating this attack as a hate

1:41.6

crime and an act of racially motivated violent extremism. On to sports now, a bunch of stuff here.

1:52.2

First several updates on Spain's soccer federation president, the guy that kissed a female

1:56.9

player on the lips after the World Cup win. First, we thought he was going to announce his

2:01.2

resignation on Friday. He didn't. That did not happen. He said that the kiss was consensual

2:06.4

and he was the victim of a witch hunt. The player Jenny Hermosa is still denying that it was

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