Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news. My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News.

Let me just start with the official hello. It's a little bit better than that. I'm starting to laugh to myself because I was

looking at the chat too early. This is why I have to be careful. I pay attention to the early chat

before the live broadcast and then something will catch me off guard just about when I'm about

to go live. So hello, welcome to Scoop, a special Tuesday edition of Scoop. We had a long holiday

weekend here in Texas and we did have some breaking news, which is Tuesday edition of Scoop. We had a long holiday weekend here in Texas,

and we did have some breaking news, which is the passing of the Pope. And actually, I appreciate

having Scoop on Tuesday. We also wanted to defer to Jeremy, one of our insiders here on Smarter

News, because he was going to be traveling with his wife. So he opted. He gave us the vote.

He said, do it on Tuesday. And we said, you know what, Jeremy, you're right. We're going to do this on Tuesday. And it actually gave us a little bit of space to take in the news about the passing of the Pope, which would have really dominated our scoop broadcast appropriately so yesterday. So now we did a little bit of a separate report on the Pope and the passing of the Pope that's available on podcast platforms in case you'd like a little extra and a little clarity on what are the next steps there, but obviously a very big news event. And now we're going to turn the page and look at the rest of the week. We have a lot of interesting news again this week to take in. And so I'm excited to do this with you. But as I was looking at the chat, I was looking at you guys,

talking about lunch.

You know, Jim says it's 11 o'clock in Denver.

Yes, Jim's going to wait a little while for lunch.

And then I see Jennifer talk about a late lunch for her.

And then Rebecca say, it's wine o'clock here.

Rebecca, are you drinking wine right now?

You don't have to say it's wine o'clock here. Rebecca, are you drinking wine right now? You don't have to say it.

You don't have to admit it to anybody. We're not here to judge you. Smarter news. We're nonpartisan to the core. There's no, there's no opinion. There's no political agenda. We want you to be you, whatever that means. We also want to know exactly what you're drinking, if that's the case. We need facts.

We need facts.

Actually, I'm going to be talking about this. want to know exactly what you're drinking, if that's the case. We need facts. We need facts.

Actually, I'm going to be talking about this. I like doing experiments on myself related to the

news. Let me explain. So sometimes I've done a dry January. I'm not very big drinker,

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