Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news.

My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News.

This is really fun.

Our insiders are on the live chat right now for this live broadcast, and they are throwing a bunch of brand new ideas to us at Smarter News.

By the way, welcome, everybody.

It is Monday, February 9th, and we are moving right along post-Superable into the Olympics.

We've got a lot of news happening this week.

It's going to be a really exciting week of headlines.

I say exciting and then, you know, I want to do the knock on wood through a salt over my shoulder. You never know what the week is going to bring, but we have a really good show for you today that's going to get you prepped and ready. What the insiders are doing now are throwing new ideas at us because I just announced to them. Because they're insiders, they get a special discount and they get a heads up on some new gear that we put out.

It's just one of the many perks they get

for basically buying smarter news, a cup of coffee once a month. So we stay ad free as ad free as

possible. Occasionally on YouTube, there's an ad. And occasionally, let me think about,

if you listen on podcast, there's going to be an ad.

But we try to keep this super super streamlined because if there's one thing I hate in this world,

it's pop up ads and distracting ads that just make it more difficult for you to listen to

or hear about the news. So we don't want to do that.

We're not trying to flood our website. Our whole news platform is about decluttering the news space,

and that also includes ads. One of the ways that we help fund smarter news is really through our

insider subscriptions. So check it out. If you can, it's smarter news. You just go to Scoop. That's the insider group. We'd love to see you can. It's smarter news. You just go to Scoop.

That's the insider group. We'd love to see you there. It's a very, very low bar for entry. I bought a cappuccino yesterday. I think I bought a nice coffee yesterday. $6.50. It's cheaper for you to be an insider and it last longer, all right? So think about it. It's just one way that you can support us. But also, I give

our insiders special discounts and fresh looks at some gear. So we have a new gear item that we're

releasing on Friday that is related to the news over the last several weeks. We're really excited

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